The Graduate
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:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Benjamin Braddock has just graduated from college, and the world — gilded with expectation and hollow with meaninglessness — is waiting for him. Charles Webb's The Graduate chronicles the restless drift of a young man trapped between the comfortable suburban life his parents have mapped out for him and an affair with the seductive, world-weary Mrs. Robinson, a liaison that pulls him deeper into moral ambiguity and emotional paralysis. Sharp, darkly comic, and quietly subversive, the novel captures the suffocating weight of mid-century American conformity with devastating precision. Webb's prose is deceptively spare, allowing the absurdity and pathos of Benjamin's predicament to surface through clipped, pitch-perfect dialogue and a relentless forward momentum that mirrors its protagonist's own confused urgency. First published in 1963, The Graduate became a landmark of American fiction — and the basis for Mike Nichols' iconic 1967 film — standing as an enduring indictment of a generation sold a dream it never quite believed in. Will Benjamin find the courage to chase what he truly wants, or will he remain forever suspended between someone else's future and his own?
Author: Charles Webb
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Benjamin Braddock has just graduated from college, and the world — gilded with expectation and hollow with meaninglessness — is waiting for him. Charles Webb's The Graduate chronicles the restless drift of a young man trapped between the comfortable suburban life his parents have mapped out for him and an affair with the seductive, world-weary Mrs. Robinson, a liaison that pulls him deeper into moral ambiguity and emotional paralysis. Sharp, darkly comic, and quietly subversive, the novel captures the suffocating weight of mid-century American conformity with devastating precision. Webb's prose is deceptively spare, allowing the absurdity and pathos of Benjamin's predicament to surface through clipped, pitch-perfect dialogue and a relentless forward momentum that mirrors its protagonist's own confused urgency. First published in 1963, The Graduate became a landmark of American fiction — and the basis for Mike Nichols' iconic 1967 film — standing as an enduring indictment of a generation sold a dream it never quite believed in. Will Benjamin find the courage to chase what he truly wants, or will he remain forever suspended between someone else's future and his own?