Fade out / Douglas Woolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Douglas, 1922-1992.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Fiction.

Older people.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4)

Physical Description:

273 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1996.

Summary:

First published in 1959, Fade Out is a stunning, surreal criticism of American life in the materialistic, youth-and money-crazed 1950s. Its hero is Dick Twombley, a 74-year old retired bank clerk who struggles to retain what remains of his dignity in a world that regards old age as an embarrassment. When he is mistakenly accused of kidnapping two little girls he has befriended, Dick's daughter packs him off to a suburban New York City retirement home. He soon makes his escape with the help of a fellow inmate, and together the two "fugitives from injustice" embark on a cross-country odyssey that lands them in the abandoned hotel of an Arizona ghost town.

Notes:

"This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 numbered deluxe copies; & 26 lettered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is number 30 published in paper wrappers.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is hardcover deluxe edition, no. 22.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is hardcover edition.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 4 is paperback edition.

ISBN:

0876859880

9780876859889

0876859872

9780876859872

OCLC:

33819570