1952 Who Walk in Darkness

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. The author's debut novel. A novel portraying the bohemian life of the late 1940s Greenwich Village, sometimes called the first beat novel. Through it, Brossard became associated with early Beat Generation writers, however he said that reviewers who characterized Who Walk in Darkness as a beat novel "totally missed getting the book. They thought it was a realistic novel, which of course it wasn't. The French critics knew better. They perceived it as the first 'new wave' novel, a nightmare presented as flat documentary."* Written by Chandler Brossard, an American novelist, writer, editor, and teacher. With a challenging style and outsider characters, Brossard had limited critical success in the United States at the time of his writing, and his novels were more appreciated in France and Great Britain. More recently, his early works have been described as "landmarks of the postwar American novel." *Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 16 - The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America, The Gale Group, 1983.