Bernard Malamud. First edition, first printing (stated). NY: FAttardo, Straus and Giroux, 1982. Unclipped jacket and hardcover both are in Near Fine condition. Jacket designed by Honi Werner and covered with a mylar protective wrapper. No writing or markings in the book, 223 pp.
The novel focuses on Calvin Cohn, the supposed sole survivor of thermonuclear war and God's second Flood, who attempts to rebuild and perfect civilization amongst the primates that make their way onto a tropical island. This was the authors eighth novel.
