The Letter Left To Me

The Letter Left To Me by McElroy, Joseph. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780394571966.

Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Hardcover first edition - New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. An unusual short novel by this award-winning author but one written in his "usual style: details accrue slowly, very slowly, through repeated examination of a few key dramatic episodes. In the late 1940s, a teenage boy receives a letter from his recently deceased father. Found among his papers after his death, the letter is full of stern, fatherly platitudes. Friends of the family praise the letter extravagantly; copies are printed up and mailed to their friends. A few years later, one of the boys college professors analyzes the letter in class." (Library Journal) 152 pp.