Very good paperback from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Exterior shelfwear is very minor. Previous owner blind-stamp and gift inscription to first page, else free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Title

The Swell Season: A Text on the Most Important Things in Life (English and Czech Edition)

Publisher

Ecco Pr

Publication Date

1986

Language

Czech

ISBN 10

0880010908

ISBN 13

9780880010900

Binding

paperback

Condition

Very Good

Weight

12 ounces

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6 short stories portray adolescent Danny Smiricky's pursuit of girls in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation

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Danny Smiricky, already known to Skvorecky's readers, is obsessed with jazz and with girls. His vain pursuit of six provincial beauties is the basis of these stories, set during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. To win over these girls, Danny does their homework, sets up elaborate schemes to be alone with them, even engages in modest anti-Nazi action. But things always go wronga girl's father interferes, the courted girls gang up on him, he is upstaged by a less notorious young manand he is left with only his music as consolation. While Danny's erotic pursuits are at times humorous and his adolescent wistfulness is captured accurately, this is a minor work of the acclaimed Czech emigre author of Engineer of Human Souls ( LJ 7/84). Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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