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Portrait of an Artist As an Old Man by Heller, Joseph
- Bookseller: The Book Parlour
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000703
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Near Fine
- Edition: First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0743202007
- ISBN 13: 9780743202008
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Place: New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date published: 2000
- Pages: 240
- Size: 6 x 8.75 x 1 inches
- Weight: 0.9 pounds
Description
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Black boards, first printing number sequence. book spine bumped at top and bottom. jacket shows minor shelf wear. Author of Catch 22. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
shelf wear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Book summary
Heller's posthumous novel, completed shortly before his death in 1999, is about an elderly man whose first novel made him rich and famous. Now forced to deal with age and infirmity, he casts about for a subject for what he knows will be his last book. He ponders writing about his wife's sexual history, updating TOM SAWYER or Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS, and composing riffs on various Greek myths and Bible stories. In the end, the book is a rich, irreverent, bawdy satirical stew that sheds light on Heller's creative process and on the coming of age in his own life.
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