Up: A Novel
- New York: Dial Press, 1968
New York: Dial Press, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Yellow cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 330pp. A straight, clean copy, Very Good to Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), faded on spine panel, with just a hint of the canary-yellow color remaining (as always, and marginally better than usual for this title), else lightly rubbed at extremities, Very Good.
Sukenick's first novel, a pioneering work of postmodern fiction that explored non-narrative and meta-narrative techniques well before these became the stock-in-trade of the American "new novelists," predicting Raymond Federman's 1973 "Surfiction: A Manifesto" ("...the new fiction will not attempt to be meaningful, truthful, or realistic") by half a decade.
Sukenick's first novel, a pioneering work of postmodern fiction that explored non-narrative and meta-narrative techniques well before these became the stock-in-trade of the American "new novelists," predicting Raymond Federman's 1973 "Surfiction: A Manifesto" ("...the new fiction will not attempt to be meaningful, truthful, or realistic") by half a decade.