The Mentality of the Picaresque Hero
Sillitoe, Alan
| Publication Date |
1993 |
| ISBN |
0854691197 |
| Publisher |
Bernard Stone and Raymond Danowski, |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Condition |
Very good copy |
| SKU |
20034 |
| Notes |
Two small patches of faint and tiny white spots (paint spray from some distance perhaps). Otherwise clean and neat. |
Description
Paperback. Navy card binding with title in red to a white label to the front. Limited to 500 copies. A brief essay by the novelist Alan Sillitoe on the qualities of the Picaresque Hero: “There are no disasters to a picaro, only setbacks...”. As an Angry Young Man of the 1950s the picaresque hero might have particular interest to those writers whose focus was so often the outsider. Turret Papers No 2.
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