The Devil in the Dooryard

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1987. Book. Very Good Plus. Soft cover. First Printing. Condition is very good plus. Has light creases on spine - on hinge of front cover, crease across tip of corner of front cover, corners bumped, some edge wear, no stamps or writing.Pages tight and clean with light aging, cover is bright and glossy, a nice looking book..........*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........Summary - "In the battle between good and evil, the savge sometimes wins...How do you live an ethical life when both God and the Devil have stopped keeping books....This is the question the erudite John Wheelwright, Brahmin born and bred, has been asking himself more and more. He finds his answer by moving to an isolated island in Boston harbor, far from the maddening crowd, a spot last inhabited by a seventeeth-century Puritan with a very concice moral view.....But as our contemporary hero soon discovers, purity is difficult to achieve - particularly when your mentor is a Puritan ghost, you are in love with a promiscuous woman, and you ae haunted by a Harvard-educated American Indian with his own method of doing this.....