Description
Poor dust jacket has chipping at spine and corners, edge wear, price clipped, several soil spots to front. Very Good binding is tan cloth over boards, green lettering on front and spine. Light bumping to corners, small soil spot to front. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.5″ tall x 5.8″ wide.
Stated “First Printing”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Arguments still fly around town as to how the Great Transformation of Whittiersville took place. Some maintain it was the result of a genuine miracle. Others, like the young men at the Chemical Works, hold it was nothing but the product of mass hysteria. Still others ascribe it exclusively to the wiles of Satan. Then there are those-though it must be admitted that they are mostly rascals-who insist it all began with the bump on Brannigan’s head.
Tom Branaigan, who had a temper and ulcers, was undoubtedly the town’s most quarrelsome man. One night on his way home from Casey’s bar he acquired a good clout on the head. As a result–he was a little dazed, to be sure-Brannigan began to love his fellow men as the Gospels say we should, and thereafter strange things began to happen in Whittiersvill. For time it looked as though the town might become a suburb of paradise. Then some unregenerate plotters showed, alas! That too many people are more interested in
power and money than the millenium, and the Great Transformation began to totter. Still, something good did come out of it all, but hints would spoil the fun.
A warm sense of humor, and rare story-telling ability, mark Myles Connolly’s delightful new novel. This amusing, yet touching, latter-day parable will appeal to precisely the same audience that cheered Mr. Blue through twelve printings.
