A Smile in His Lifetime First Edition

Hansen, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 0452256755 ISBN 13: 9780452256750

Published by Plume, 1985

Language: English

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Softcover, Trade Paperback, 8" x 5.25", 292 pages, Condition: As New, Only due to fading/yellowing of edges of pages and cover, very light rubbing to edge of front cover, otherwise Unread, Tight Binding, Spine Not Broken, Never opened past copyright page, (assumed) First Edition being a First Plume Printing, March, 1985 as stated, Full # print line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 as printed on copyright page, publisher pre-marked $6.95 on back cover, Novels by Joseph Hansen: * A Smile In His Lifetime (1981) Backtrack (1982) Job's Year (1983) Pretty Boy Dead (1984) Steps Going Down (1985) A Few Doors West Of Hope (1998), ** Also author of the "Dave Brandstetter" Series: * 1. Fadeout (1970) 2. Death Claims (1973) 3. Troublemaker (1975) 4. The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of (1978) 5. Skinflick (1979) 6. Gravedigger (1982) 7. Nightwork (1984) Brandstetter and Others (1984) 8. The Little Dog Laughed (1986) 9. Early Graves (1987) 10. Obedience (1988) 11. The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning (1990) 12. A Country Of Old Men (1991).

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Title

A Smile in His Lifetime First Edition

Publisher

Plume

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0452256755

ISBN 13

9780452256750

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

As New

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Whit Miller was a struggling writer and a solidly married man. Then came success - and destruction. Of his marriage.

And almost of himself. For Whit was gay and now there was nothing to repress who he was and what he wanted: a man to love, among so many men to love. And in an odyssey of desperate need and obsessive desire he journeyed to the heights and to the depths of the heart - and of the flesh...

A Smile in His Lifetime
"THE SEXUAL DRIVE OF A HUMAN BEING TREATED AS THE TORNADO IT REALLY RESEMBLES. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP READING...A NOVELTHAT SHOULDN'T BE MISSED." -The Reader, Los Angeles

"A man confused, tormented and overwhelmed by his erotic disposition...essentially homosexual, though occasionally heterosexual, and sometimes just sexual... good, direct, penetrating...evokes the poignant peculiarities of L.A. in a way that compares well with Christopher Isherwood and Joan Didion." -Leonard Michaels, in New West

"Courageous. Always on the mark in confronting even the darkest feelings." -New York Times Book Review

"Impressive for its unrelenting honesty...often shattering." -Philadelphia Inquirer

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Joseph Hansen is the author of the highly-praised series of Bramdsetter mysteries.

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