klane robert frith michael (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 150 p. : ill.; 18 cm. Includes Illustrations. 0.0.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Michael K. Frith (illustrator). 1st Edition. 150pp.Charming illustrations on cover and title page. Robert Klane's novel: Where's Poppa? (1970) is a black comedy about a harried New York lawyer, Gordon Hocheiser, who is driven to desperate measures by his senile mother, whom he is bound by a deathbed promise to care for. The book was adapted into a cult classic film in 1970 directed by Carl Reiner. Size: Octavo 5"x7". Book.

Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [8],150pp.; frontispiece. Light shelf wear, a hint of dust-soil to rear jacket panel, cloth spine lettering rather dulled, foxing along front hinge, else a Very Good, still quite bright and attractive copy. The author's second novel "in the great tradition" of his first, The Horse Is Dead. A film adaptation appeared in the same year as the novel, starring George Segal and directed by Carl Reiner. However, Klane was still eighteen years away from producing his chef d'oeuvre, the screenplay for Weekend at Bernie's.