The law

New York: Knopf, 1958. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. THE LAW BY ROGER VAILLAND HARDCOVER PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF COPYRIGHT 1958--CONDITION GOOD-316 PAGES The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of southern Italy, is but a shadow of an even fiercer attitude to life-a... 314 p.; 22 cm. -THE LAW BY ROGER VAILLAND HARDCOVER PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF COPYRIGHT 1958--CONDITION GOOD-316 PAGES The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of southern Italy, is but a shadow of an even fiercer attitude to life-a pote THE LAW BY ROGER VAILLAND HARDCOVER PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF COPYRIGHT 1958--CONDITION GOOD-316 PAGES The grotesque game of the Law, played in the taverns of southern Italy, is but a shadow of an even fiercer attitude to life-a potent metaphor for a vigorously hierarchical view of existence which rules over the mezzogiorno, the noonday culture of southern Italy. In this novel we are not asked to pardon or condemn the passion of Donna Lucrezia, the assured self-centeredness of the learned aristocrat Don Cesare or even the sinister desires of Matteo Brigante, the controlling godfather."The Law is an experience I will not easily forget