All Honorable Men
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair to Poor. Jacket: Chipped and worn with significant yellowing, creasing, and edge damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact but aged. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A sharp and satirical work of mid-century American fiction, All Honorable Men cuts to the heart of corporate and political conformity with wit and unflinching clarity. David Karp, celebrated for his dystopian masterpiece One and the darkly comic The Day of the Monkey, once again trains his incisive pen on the pressures of modern institutional life. The novel chronicles the moral compromises and quiet hypocrisies of men who present themselves as pillars of respectability, exposing the gap between public virtue and private ambition. Written with the kind of cool, observational intelligence that defined Karp's best work, it stands as a compelling indictment of mid-twentieth-century American society and the cost of playing by the rules.
Author: David Karp
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Gollancz
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair to Poor. Jacket: Chipped and worn with significant yellowing, creasing, and edge damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Appears intact but aged. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A sharp and satirical work of mid-century American fiction, All Honorable Men cuts to the heart of corporate and political conformity with wit and unflinching clarity. David Karp, celebrated for his dystopian masterpiece One and the darkly comic The Day of the Monkey, once again trains his incisive pen on the pressures of modern institutional life. The novel chronicles the moral compromises and quiet hypocrisies of men who present themselves as pillars of respectability, exposing the gap between public virtue and private ambition. Written with the kind of cool, observational intelligence that defined Karp's best work, it stands as a compelling indictment of mid-twentieth-century American society and the cost of playing by the rules.