New York: Viking, (1976). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 160 pp. Original quarter black cloth over chocolate brown paper-covered boards, stamped in gold, bronze, in original unclipped ($7.95) dust-jacket. Faint handling and shelf wear to jacket. Small speck to rear jacket. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and still stiff. Interior is clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

“Joseph is 43, a farmer-teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers - one a tantalizing young student, the other his childhood friend, he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or seek employment in the outside world. The basis for the movie "Carried Away" with Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving and Amy Locane. “A quiet triumph . . . Joseph is a man suffocated by everything he loves most in the world; the land and its ghosts, love and friendship, integrity. Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and make it new as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.”—The Washington Post”