Item #6667 THE OUTSIDER. Howard Fast.
THE OUTSIDER
THE OUTSIDER
THE OUTSIDER

THE OUTSIDER

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, black eighth cloth with silver lettering on spine over blue cloth, ardhival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a Jewish man with tallit, a priest, and a woman with photos of buildings, blue endpapers, 371 pages. Fine / Near Fine. Item #6667
ISBN: 039536101X

Howard Melvin Fast (1914 – 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Because of his Communism, he was Black-listed despite his widely recognized brilliance.

Fast's first popular work was Citizen Tom Paine, a fictional account of the life of Thomas Paine.

Perhaps his most enduring work is Spartacus (1951), a historical novel about the historic Roman slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BCE., which inspired the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick (with screenplay secretly written by another black-listed brilliant writer, Dalton Trumbo), that starred Kirk Douglas as Spartacus.


Condition: Solid and clean copy. No previous ownership or remainder marks. Some rubbing to dust jacket.

Price: $22.00

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