The Book of Daniel: A Novel (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books)

New York: The Modern Library, 1983. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x4x1. First Modern Library edition, binding/jacket style 16q, $8.95 jacket price, Modern Library logo collage on endpapers. Minor wear to corners, remainder mark on top edge. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1983 Hard Cover. 303 pp. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grandmothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pentagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country - its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations.