Good as Gold by Joseph Heller [FIRST EDITION / 1979]

Good as Gold by Joseph Heller 

FIRST EDITION / SECOND PRINTING [1979] SIMON & SCHUSTER

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Dust jacket is in very good shape, housed in a protective cover.  Front panel is price clipped.  Book itself looks and reads like new. 

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.