Conversion by Victor Perera (7 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, 307 pp.

First edition, first printing Close to fine and bright in price-clipped dustjacket with clean text throughout. Light sun fade to spine which bothers none of the text.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. No Jacket. First Edition. Boston. 1970. Little Brown. 1st Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 307 pages. hardcover. keywords: Latin America Guatemala Literature Translated Jewish World Literature. DESCRIPTION - THE CONVERSION is the story of Stanley Bendana's great run toward life, a run across Europe and across a young man's troubled soul, undertaken by a Don Quixote from Flatbush. Stanley Bendana, an American graduate student of Sephardic Jewish background, has come to Spain to study Cervantes. But Stanley's real quest, both spiritual and sensual, is for manhood and for expiation of an all but overwhelming sense of guilt - guilt about his dead father, for whom he had promised to recite Kaddish once a year; guilt about his deserted sister, now languishing in a Long Island mental hospital; and guilt about his reluctance to follow tradition and duty. Stanley was the first member of his family to set foot in Spain since the Expulsion in 1492. At turns raffish and powerfully affecting, The Conversion takes Stanley through a series of bold adventures, vivid encounters, foiled and victorious seductions, and other of life's growing pains and pleasures - from an opening joust with a shrewd Spanish priest to whom an astonished Stanley pretends to be Catholic, to his final attempt to play protector to a group of voluble Spanish domestics held in Dickensian bondage in modern London. In story, THE CONVERSION is straight and true. In theme, it is a mosaic: the pieces - Spanish Catholic, American Jew, Inquisition and Auschwitz, the healing of a haunted soul. inventory #15042.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pyramid Book N2519, 1st paperback printing, August, 1971. Cover art not credited. 268 pages. Reprints the 1970 Little, Brown hardcover edition. "A quixotic young Jew comes to Spain to lose his virginity and battle a priest for his soul!" This copy in clean and tight VG condition. Bump to top of front cover and a few (now straightened) dog-earred pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Pyramid Books, 1971. 12mo. Paperback. Book is very good. Covers have some light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. First edition. Very good hardcover with unclipped good minus dust jacket with fade and soil. SIGNED by author. A coming of age tale of a Sephardic Jewish scholar.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Ex-library. Moderate wear, heavy crease along top corner of front cover. Small brown stain at top edge of front cover. Library folder glued to inner front cover. Stamps on inner front cover. Binding split along pages 104-105; pages are all attached. Pages are age toned.