The Angel of Darkness

New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0679435328 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some very beginning fading to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Much of Carr's fiction deals with violence perpetrated by people whose behavior has its origins in childhood abuse. These stories are rooted in Carr's family history. The author's father, Lucien Carr, was born in 1925 in New York City. Lucien's parents separated when he was five, and the balance of his childhood was spent in St. Louis, where both the elder Carrs, Russell and Marion, had been born to socially prominent families. David Kammerer followed Lucien wherever the younger man went—including moves to out-of-state schools. Eventually, the two landed in New York City. Lucien had left University of Chicago after a suicide attempt, which he tried to pass off as a piece of performance art, and enrolled at Columbia University." (from Wikipedia) .