Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Copyright is 1979. 312 pages. Volume shows very light rubbing at corners. Dust jacket shows a little very light wear/creasing along upper edges and spine ends. Light wear is seen at corners. Jacket remains bright and clean, and is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve. Codice articolo 042973

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Tryout

ABBOTT, George

Editore: Playboy Press : trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1979

ISBN 10: 0872235270 ISBN 13: 9780872235274

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Da: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.

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Condizione: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Codice articolo U09A-05466

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Tryout

Abbott, George

Editore: Playboy Press : Trade Distribution By Simon and Schuster, E-101, 1979

ISBN 10: 0872235270 ISBN 13: 9780872235274

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Da: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Playboy Press/Simon and Schuster, New York. 1979. 312 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. It's 1944, and neophyte actor Chuck Cornell (a man with a secret) lucks into a role in an out-of-town tour, a role he loses when he rejects the advances of the star's wife--a vengeful woman scorned. All this is conventionally plotted, but the telling is genial, and the rehearsal/performance milieu is gritty enough to carry us along. Then, however, Chuck's secret is revealed: he's really Brooks Blakeley, the despised runaway son of a loathsome millionaire. And so the action shifts to the Blakeley compound in Palm Beach, where the novel bogs down in an all-too-familiar stew of Rich-People intrigues: Chuck's father is ruthlessly trying to gain control of the family business; Chuck's stepmother is having her first affair; Chuck has conflicting flings with two gorgeous gals; and Chuck's eccentric, much-divorced aunt is married off by her cruel brother to a homosexual--who breaks her heart by running off after the wedding with an actor chum of Chuck's. (These secret lovers have gooey love scenes that Mr. Abbott would surely never be willing to direct: "Ned, Ned--Oh, my love, why did you have to come here! Why did we have to meet?" etc. ) And meanwhile the theater milieu--and, for that matter, the 1940s setting--is all but forgotten, though Chuck (whose character is ludicrously inconsistent) does finally break free of his family and gets a big Broadway show off the ground. E-101; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages. Codice articolo 67305

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