TESTIMONY & DEMEANOR (Signed First Edition)

Casey, John.

ISBN 10: 0394500970 / ISBN 13: 9780394500973

Published by Knopf, New York,, 1979

About this Item

ew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, beautiful copy. Octavos. Signed by John Casey on the title page, his name only, without inscription. "Testimony and Demeanor" is John Casey's first story collection. Casey was a novelist, short story writer, and professor of English literature at the University of Virginia. He graduated from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and earned an MFA from the University of Iowa. His novel "Spartina" won the 1989 National Book Award, and his other works include "An American Romance," "The Half-Life of Happiness," and "Compass Rose." This was his second published book, following his debut novel "An American Romance" (1977).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TESTIMONY & DEMEANOR (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York,
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394500970
• ISBN 13: 9780394500973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A young intellectual is called into active duty and receives a rude awakening to the realities of military service. An Ivy League graduate is pressed casually into Intelligence work and encounters himself mirrored in his new-found friend--a Russian spy. An arrogant professor finds himself unable to resist the unschooled energy of a spunky female student. A lonely apprentice at a New York law firm is flattered by the attentions of two mentors--one a senior partner, the other an enchantingly extravagant woman--whose sophistication make his own naivety painfully apparent. Each story in this luminous quartet explorers an emotional turning-point, either toward or away from self-knowledge--that moment when a young man of privilege suddenly finds his carefully nurtured superiority crumbling. In Casey’s beautiful prose, the experiences of these solitary narrators resonate with remarkable power.

About the Author

John Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. His novel Spartina won the National Book Award in 1989. He lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia.