Monday Night

Boyle, Kay

Published by New Classics/New Directions, 1938

About this Item

MONDAY NIGHT, Kay Boyle, hardcover, 1938. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block is in fine condition with no tears or marks, but page 56 has a dog-ear fold. The pages are age-toned. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The gray cloth boards are in fairly good condition (discoloring along edges and spine, spine lightly bumped at bottom, fray area at bottom edge of rear cover). 7 1/4 x 5, 174 pages, 11 ounces XX [Good Reads] Unfathomable horror broods over this story in which two Americans become involved in the search for one man: a toxicologist who has been connected with certain notorious poisonings which had occurred in France. Boyle's main character, the investigator Wiltshire Tobin, is based on Left Bank legend Harold Edmund Stearns. [Britannica] Kay Boyle, (born February 19, 1902, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.?died December 27, 1992, Mill Valley, California), American writer and political activist noted throughout her career as a keen and scrupulous student of the interior lives of characters in desperate situations. Boyle grew up mainly in Europe, where she was educated. Financial difficulties at the onset of World War I took the family back to the United States, to Cincinnati, Ohio. In June 1923 she married and soon moved with her husband to France. Shortly after settling there she began publishing poems and short stories regularly in such influential expatriate periodicals as Broom and transition and in Harriet Monroe?s Poetry; and in 1929 she published her first book, a collection entitled Wedding Day and Other Stories. Her first novel, Plagued by the Nightingale, appeared in 1931. In that year she divorced her first husband and married Laurence Vail, an expatriate American writer with whom she lived in the French Alps until July 1941, when she returned to the United States. After World War II, married for a third time, she was stationed in France and West Germany while serving as foreign correspondent for The New Yorker (1946?53). She and her third husband, Joseph, baron von Franckenstein, an Austrian who became an American citizen and worked for the U.S. foreign service, faced Senate loyalty hearings during the McCarthy era. Boyle later taught at several colleges and universities in the United States, notably San Francisco State College (now University). Believing that privilege brings social responsibility, she was a political activist throughout her life. Boyle twice won the O. Henry Award for outstanding short stories, for ?The White Horses of Vienna? (1935) and ?Defeat? (1941). Among her notable novels are Monday Night (1938) and Generation Without Farewell (1960). Her major short-story collections include The White Horses of Vienna, and Other Stories (1936), The Smoking Mountain: Stories of Postwar Germany (1951), and Fifty Stories (1980). Two critically acclaimed verse collections are Testament for My Students and Other Poems (1970) and This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems (1985). Her complete verse was published in Collected Poems of Kay Boyle (1991). Seller Inventory # 001525

Bibliographic Details

Title: Monday Night

Publisher: New Classics/New Directions

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket