MURDER IN MOUNT HOLLY

by Paul Theroux

$1,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

London: Alan Ross, 1969. Uncommonly attractive first edition of Theroux's novel about a worthless young man shipped off to a pointless war, and the elderly sentimentalists who set out to bloodily avenge him. Fine in near fine jacket. Item #47557 Theroux's third novel is a grouchy Vietnam War-era satire concerning an unwilling draftee who talks himself into a measure of self-sacrifice for the only cause that really means

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