ROGERS, Thomas. The Pursuit of Happiness. London: The Bodley Head. 1969. 8vo. First British edition, published one year after the American edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with a drawing by Roy Spencer. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped, spine a touch faded, extremities gently bumped and rubbed, but a pleasing copy.
Thomas Rogers’ debut novel, a comic tale of an existential young couple who vow to eschew the philistine American culture and ideology that tries to absorb them. Things go awry when William kills a pedestrian in a motor accident, and the couple must uncomfortably confront the society they are running from, spiritually and then physically. It was adapted for the screen in 1971, directed by Robert Mulligan of To Kill a Mockingbird fame and starring Michael Sarrazin and Barbara Hershey. The first British edition is quite uncommon.
ROGERS, Thomas. The Pursuit of Happiness. London: The Bodley Head. 1969. 8vo. First British edition, published one year after the American edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket with a drawing by Roy Spencer. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped, spine a touch faded, extremities gently bumped and rubbed, but a pleasing copy.
Thomas Rogers’ debut novel, a comic tale of an existential young couple who vow to eschew the philistine American culture and ideology that tries to absorb them. Things go awry when William kills a pedestrian in a motor accident, and the couple must uncomfortably confront the society they are running from, spiritually and then physically. It was adapted for the screen in 1971, directed by Robert Mulligan of To Kill a Mockingbird fame and starring Michael Sarrazin and Barbara Hershey. The first British edition is quite uncommon.
