New York literary agent Roger Damon receives a threatening late-night phone call, and as the weeks pass he looks back over his life to work out who might want him dead – a late novel by the author of Rich Man, Poor Man.
First published in the United States by Arbor House in 1982 and in Great Britain by New English Library in 1983. This edition published in 1983 by Book Club Associates.
A hardcover with dust jacket, in good secondhand condition – please see photos for condition details.
Irwin Shaw was born on 27 February 1913 in the Bronx, New York. He made his name as a playwright with Bury the Dead in 1936, then built a long career as a novelist and short-story writer, twice winning the O. Henry Award. His novels The Young Lions and Rich Man, Poor Man both sold millions of copies, and the latter became a hit television mini-series in 1976. Acceptable Losses, published in 1982, is one of his later novels, following a New York literary agent who receives a threatening late-night phone call and looks back over his life.
Shaw died on 16 May 1984 near Davos, Switzerland, at the age of 71.
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