Acceptable Losses by Shaw, Irwin - 1983

Avon. Very Good. 1983. First Printing. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. The front cover has a vertical crease in its middle. There are three handwritten Xs on the first page next to the spine. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 309 pages; "You've been warned…I may not call again. " If a death threat came in the night, would you know who wanted to kill you? Roger Damon is at the peak of his career: successful, well-liked, and happily married. An ordered decent life. Until the phone call. A strange voice, full of loathing and menace. A voice that is enough to jolt Damon from his trance of happiness onto a downward path of shattered confidence as he comes to see all too clearly the frailty of his previous certainties. The blows rain in: an old friend dies, a woman he once knew well is killed. And all the while the threatening calls continue. Drinking heavily, his professiona l life is endangered, his downward path steepens and spirals down into a near madness, hallucination and physical collapse. Yet this process of destruction is checked as a new honesty of insight revives his will to survive. But to survive now at a level of more modest, truer self-knowledge. ' Will combine shipping on more than one book. .