THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. The limited edition issued by the trade publisher - #13 out of 250 numbered copies signed by Percy on the limitation page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in burgundy cloth in a very near fine blue-grey slipcase (hint of sunning to case.)
Book ID: 55864
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