DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD STORIES ABOUT SECRET PLACES AND MEAN MEN
1974158882New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1974. Large octavo 177 leaves printed on rectos only white wrappers spiral black plastic spine. Xerographic reproduction of long galleys uncorrected proof of the first edition. The author's third collection of short fiction "sixteen stories by a satirist whose fantasies are peopled with appealing grotesqueries. R. A. Lafferty's unique imaginative world sardonic and strange is shown to its best advantage in his short fiction . In DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD we are treated to a full complement of Lafferty's malicious virtuosity and sly tomfoolery." - Greta Eisner. Includes "Mad Man" a tale of the future in which the creation of robots depends on a chemical produced only by people in furious rages and "Maybe Jones and the City" a parody of the utopian impulse in which the protagonist searches the universe for the Perfect Place. One of the major short story collections of the 1970s. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 574-78. See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-622. Wrappers soiled internally fine. A photocopy of the publisher's "editorial report" is laid in. A rare proof. #158882 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
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