ISBN:

• 9780063289536
• 9780060930219

Edition: First Harper hardcover edition.

Description: vi, 518 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

• Publisher, pagination, and printing dates may vary.
• "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1961 by J.B. Lippincott Company."--Title page verso.

Contents:

• Chapter 1. In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir
• Chapter 2. The Whole Sick Crew
• Chapter 3. In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations
• Chapter 4. In which Esther gets a nose job
• Chapter 5. In which Stencil nearly goes West with an alligator
• Chapter 6. In which Profane returns to street level
• Chapter 7. She hangs on the western wall
• Chapter 8. In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz
• Chapter 9. Mondaugen's story
• Chapter 10. In which various sets of young people get together
• Chapter 11. Confessions of Fausto Maijstral
• Chapter 12. In which things are not so amusing
• Chapter 13. In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind
• Chapter 14. V. in love
• Chapter 15. Sahha
• Chapter 16. Valletta
• Epilogue.

LCCN: 2022465887

Control Number: 3415522

Subjects:

• Bohemianism -- Fiction.
• Life change events -- Fiction.
• Missing persons -- Fiction.
• Rogues and vagabonds -- Fiction.
• Symbolism -- Fiction.
• Veterans -- Fiction.

Genre:

• Historical fiction.
• Novels.
• Psychological fiction.