N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1989. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed along edges, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Beaumont, a self-described fallen hero of the advertising industry, tangles with a demented psychiatrist in Barthelme's third series thriller (after Tart, with a Silken Finish ). After meeting Melissa Stone, head of a Houston psychiatric clinic, Beaumont is only too eager to start work on a PR campaign to bring her new clients: Dr. Stone is six feet of overpowering woman, and an irresistible temptation to the impressionable Beaumont. There's also the chance that she may be able to cure Beaumont's anorectic girlfriend, Tammy. But Tammy vanishes--and Stone, it appears, is both crazy and dangerous, as Beaumont discovers when he becomes a prisoner in deadly danger of losing his sanity as a result of pharmacological torture. Barthelme's hero is reminiscent of John D. MacDonald's redoubtable Travis McGee--quixotic, beat-up and inclined to go to the dogs, but always pulling himself together in the nick of time..." -- Publishers Weekly . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

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Bookseller: Murder By The Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003435
Title: BRAINFADE: A Beaumont Novel
Author: Barthelme, Peter
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Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0312028792
ISBN 13: 9780312028794
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press
Place of Publication: N.Y.
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: MYSTERY; Crime, Texas
Bookseller catalogs: TEXAS;

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