Good As Gold.

HELLER, Joseph.

Item Number: 115498

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

First edition of this work by the author of Catch – 22. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Bob Thomas, With good wishes to someone who by now is an old and very valued friend. Joe Heller 2/20/80 The (of course) Polo Lounge.” Also signed in full Joseph Heller on the front free endpaper. The recipient, Bob Thomas was an American Hollywood film industry biographer and reporter who worked for the Associated Press from 1944. As of 2014, he was twice listed in the Guinness World Records, for the longest career as a reporter, and for the most consecutive Academy Awards shows covered by an entertainment reporter. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.