THE DURABLE FIRE : A Novel
by Howard Swiggett
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Very Good
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1957. BOMC First Edition . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. BOMC First Edition. Embossed, bi-color green boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/short closed edge tears. A novel from Howard Swiggett (1891 - 1957), author of The Power and the Prize which MGM adapted to film. This is a post World War II story of big business, international intrigue & enduring marriage love. 366 pgs. Protagonist Stephen Lowry, formerly working with the Norwegian underground against the Nazis, returns home to join big business in New York as a "foreign specialist". The heroine is his lovely Estonian wife. The plot, full of the unexpected, is one of suspense. The title, "durable fire", bespeaks of Lowry's love for his wife (and her search for her missing family) that steadies him and sustains him as he joins the vast industrial & financial world.
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- Seller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 019546
- Title
- THE DURABLE FIRE : A Novel
- Author
- Howard Swiggett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BOMC First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novel, Big Business, International Intrigue, Russia, Estonia, Marriage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Industry;
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100 POCKETS
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