MILL SONG - A Novel by Harding, William Harry - 1984

New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 325 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on gold boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. When he returned home after nearly three years of restless wandering, he expected to find things pretty much as he'd left them. Broke and road-weary, he was ready to pick up the pieces of the life he had abandoned when, grieving over the death of his father, he had dropped out of his last year at Princeton to begin an aimless journey across the country. Against the residue of hard snow that had found New Jersey before he did, Christmas lights flashed and blinked behind the curtained windows of the houses lining his street. His own home would be dark. Cold, too. His mother would be in Florida by now, most likely worrying about him, wondering where he was. But the house was neither cold nor dark, and his mother was not in Florida. She was right there in her newly decorated living room with a big, amiable man by her side. And he was in for more surprises. He learned his father had been unfaithful. And he met the mistress. She was young, pretty and successful.... First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo.