Easy and Hard Ways Out (First Edition)

Robert Grossbach

ISBN 10: 0061226084 / ISBN 13: 9780061226083

Published by Harper's Magazine Press, New York, 1974

About this Item

Harper's Magazine Press, New York, 1974. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy, with price ($6.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Front pastedown fading matches rear pastedown, and is *not* a water stain. Very faint foxing on edges. A short closed tear on top edge of rear panel (as pictured), on an otherwise beautiful copy. One of the best and brightest novels about the Vietnam War --New York Times. Fiction-G.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3774

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Easy and Hard Ways Out (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harper's Magazine Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061226084
• ISBN 13: 9780061226083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Vietnam
  • First Editions
  • Vietnam War

About this title

Synopsis

The fast-paced, darkly funny novel of the men on the home front during the Vietnam War—with an infectious spirit akin to Kurt Vonnegut’s finest storytellingThis furious, slapstick tale has been praised by the New York Times as one of the “best and brightest” novels about the Vietnam War. We follow the travails of Harvey Brank and his fellow employees, all undrafted malcontents working in a spectacularly small-minded, almost Kafkaesque engineering company. Assigned to build a fighter plane and drawn into office intrigues, Brank faces impossible demands. His wife, despairing of his patchy employment history and restlessness, hopes against hope that Brank won’t get himself fired this time. But what do you do when everything conspires against your vision of a decent, peaceable life? Easy and Hard Ways Out is a blunt, freewheeling look at the men who stay home during wartime—a story about the everyday, with a timeless moral at its heart.