The Lover by Abraham B. Yehoshua - 1978

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: DoubleDay & Co. Inc., 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel. Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson. Jacket lightly soiled with edge wear and rubbing, couple small tears, interior is clean. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall.

Doubleday, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Doubleday, January 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - good/Good. The Lover. A. B. Yehoshua. Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson. Doubleday and Co., 1978. First Edition. Text is clean, top slightly yellowed. DJ has small chips on spine and back right bottom.

Contents appear as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in fine tan boards with DJ displaying moderate surface/edge/wear, as shown, with large hole at bottom of spine.
KIRKUS REVIEW
Owing to the special conditions of its existence, Israel is a hothouse of psychologies, and Yehoshua's talent has been to catalogue them minutely in his fiction. In his first novel to be published here, he presents young and mysterious Gabriel Arditi, who enters the lives of Adam and his wife Asya, a middle-class Israeli couple, shortly before the 1973 war. Within days Gabriel is gone--to the war? killed? Asya had fallen in love with him, Adam had become obsessed with him, reinventing Gabriel as the son he lost in childhood. Asya's fantasies and Adam's compulsive quest to track "the lover" down after the end of the war make up the meat of the book; Yehoshua reduplicates each relationship with different characters, including Adam's young daughter Daft and an Israeli Arab boy he employs in his garage, Na'im. A taut sense of… Read More

Doubleday, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!