The Legend of the Holy Drinker.

ROTH, Joseph .

Item Number: 143119

London: Chatto & Windus, 1989.

First edition of this work by the author of Radetzky March. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Maestracci. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.

The Legend of the Holy Drinker is a 1939 novella by Austrian writer Joseph Roth, published posthumously. It tells the story of a homeless alcoholic, Andreas, who wants to return money he has borrowed, but fails because he spends all of his money on alcohol.