Max Jamison: A Novel (Common Reader Editions)

ADARKLY ENGAGING BOOK"(Saturday Review),this is a fiercely funny novel about a theater reviewer on the verge of burn-out.When first published in 1970,Max jamison was nominated for a Nationl Book Award."One of the most unhappily accurate accounts of a critic's day-to daylife ever committed to paper".(National Observer)"Triumphantly intelligent".(The Washington Post Book World)With a New fterword by the author.

WILFRID SHEED was born in London in1930, and now lives in Sag Harbor, New York. His many books include In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery and The Morning After…and Long After, both available in COMMON READER EDITIONS.

Book Description
A National Book Award nominee in 1971, this is a fiercely funny novel about a theater reviewer on the verge of burn-out.

From Library Journal
Sheed's portrait of theater critic Max Jamison, who is on the edge of burning out, garnered a National Book Award nomination in 1970. Max's work is going to hell, his wife has left him, and he tries to fill the void with numerous sexual escapades that don't seem to help. This edition contains a new afterword by the author. Also new to the series is Sheed's The Morning After and Long After, a 1971 collection of essays and reviews.

Book Dimension
Height (mm) 207 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Width (mm) 133