Tower in the West.

NORRIS, Frank.

$75.00

Item Number: 115647

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.

First edition of the author’s Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.

"[A] rather extraordinary and often difficult novel, but one that whether you like it or not, you won't easily forget. The Tower which gives [the book its] title is the lasting memorial to the memory of Jeff Hanes of St. Louis, brilliant young architect, killed in an accident in Norway... Here- in a tale that spans two world wars- we have the background of bust and boom, crisis and challenge; a tale peopled with racketeers, politicians, businessmen on the make, and women, all of whom seem married to the wrong men. There's flaming youth translated into not so glamorous middle age" (Kirkus Reviews).