Night

Verissimo, Erico; Barrett, L. L. (Transl.)

Published by Macmillan: New York, 1956

About this Item

Original 1956 first American edition of Verissimo's urban noir psychological thriller "Night." The book is overall in very good condition with some minor signs of wear and age. It comes in its original dust jacket which is in generally good condition with some old tape repairs to the underside, a clipped front flap, and some other mild wear. The jacket comes in a protective removable Brodart. The actual covers of the book only have some minor wear. The binding is good and sound. The interior is lightly toned from age but is mostly nice and clean though there may be the very occasional page with a light bit of foxing, grubbiness, or some kind of other minor imperfection such as a tiny chip or tear, creased page corner, minor interior crack, minor stain or marking, etc. Generally though, it's a nice copy. The book measures approximately 8 1/4 inches by 5 5/8 inches and is 166 pages long. **********From Wikipedia: "In the 1950s, a man finds himself in the middle of the streets of Porto Alegre with a wallet full of money. and no memory of any past events. He finds two "vultures of the night", enigmatic noctivague figures with a high penchant for bohemian lifestyles. The "vultures" (called The Master and The Hunchback) take the man on a surrealistic journey through the darkest places of the city, to "enjoy the night": a funeral parlor, the emergency service of a hospital, a deluxe whorehouse and a low-level working class cabaret. At the same time, the two enigmatic figures surreptitiously try to make the man-with-no-memory assume that he committed a horrendous crime early that night, in which a woman was the subject of a brutal passion-related crime and no perpetrator was yet arrested by the police. The book has a unique atmosphere in depicting the low-level bohemy that crowded some places in the Brazilian urban legends. In the 1980s, Brazilian film director José Louzeiro conducted a movie loosely based on the book.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Night
• Publisher: Macmillan: New York
• Publication Date: 1956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good