The Generous Heart
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First England ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Behind every generous act lies a hidden motive — and in Kenneth Fearing's The Generous Heart, nothing and no one is quite what they seem. Set against a backdrop of mid-century American tension, the novel chronicles the lives of ordinary people caught in webs of ambition, deception, and moral compromise, rendered with the sharp, cinematic precision that made Fearing one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Fearing, celebrated as both a poet and crime novelist, brings to his prose a hard-boiled cadence and a poet's eye for the telling detail, crafting characters who are at once deeply flawed and utterly human. His writing sits at the intersection of literary noir and social realism, dissecting the anxieties of postwar American life with surgical wit and unflinching honesty. Published by the prestigious London imprint The Bodley Head, The Generous Heart stands as a testament to Fearing's singular ability to transform the mundane into the menacing — leaving the reader to wonder just how generous the human heart truly is.
Author: Kenneth Fearing
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, The Bodley Head
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First England ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Behind every generous act lies a hidden motive — and in Kenneth Fearing's The Generous Heart, nothing and no one is quite what they seem. Set against a backdrop of mid-century American tension, the novel chronicles the lives of ordinary people caught in webs of ambition, deception, and moral compromise, rendered with the sharp, cinematic precision that made Fearing one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Fearing, celebrated as both a poet and crime novelist, brings to his prose a hard-boiled cadence and a poet's eye for the telling detail, crafting characters who are at once deeply flawed and utterly human. His writing sits at the intersection of literary noir and social realism, dissecting the anxieties of postwar American life with surgical wit and unflinching honesty. Published by the prestigious London imprint The Bodley Head, The Generous Heart stands as a testament to Fearing's singular ability to transform the mundane into the menacing — leaving the reader to wonder just how generous the human heart truly is.