Stranger in a Strange Land [Uncut] by Robert A. Heinlein [ACE BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1991]

Stranger in a Strange Land [Uncut] by Robert A. Heinlein

HARDCOVER BOOK CLUB EDITION [1991] ACE / PUTNAM

Hardcover with dust jacket.  Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear; traces of ink spotting to underside; otherwise like new.

Book itself is pristine; like new and unread.

Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.

NAME: Valentine Michael Smith
ANCESTRY: Human
ORIGIN: Mars

Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.