New York: Random House, 1960. [1960]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt, red, and gray; the front panel in gilt. Octavo. Red topstain. 507pps. Stated First Printing. A previous owner's name is neatly penned on the ffep., otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has moderate chipping at the spine-ends as well as modest rubbing wear at the tips and along the folds; the original price (5.95) is intact. A nice copy of the author's third novel.

"...On his way back to the States, Peter Leverett stopped in Italy to see his old schoolmate Mason Flagg in the little coastal town of Sambuco. The following morning Mason was found dead at the base of a cliff. The hours leading up to Mason's death were a nightmare to Peter, not only in their violence but in their maddening unreality and mystery. Peter later realized that he had been witness to a blaze of events which were ignited by a tragic conflict between two men: one was Flagg himself; the other was Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive American painter who had settled in Sambuco after an alcoholic flight across most of Europe. Mason, leading a hectic, pretentious, Don Juan life, found Cass his natural enemy and prey. Out of the enslavement, the agony, the degradation of their relationship came the salvation of one man and the destruction of the other..."

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Set This House on Fire, is a novel by William Styron, set in Italy centred on the themes of evil and redemption. The narrator, Leverett, is a lawyer from the South, but the story is primarily told through the recollections of its protagonist, a troubled artist named Cass.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 106-5016
Title: Set This House on Fire
Author: Styron, William
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1960
Bookseller catalogs: Literature & Fiction, U S A;

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