Condition: very good overall, but back is not crisp; it has bends and dents that are noticeable, but that do not affect the comfort or readability of the book From Wikipedia: Vidal considered this to be one of his best works, and one of the experimental texts he referred to as his “inventions.” Italo Calvino said that Vidal’s development up to Duluth “is crowned with great success, not only for the density of comic effects, each one filled with meaning, not only for the craftsmanship in construction, put together like a clockwork which fears no word processor, but because this latest book holds its own built-theory, that which the author calls ‘apres post-structuralism.’ I consider Vidal to be a master of that new form which is taking shape in world literature and which we may call the hyper-novel or the novel elevated to the square or the cube. (c) 1983