The Messenger

First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 217pp. Foxing to page edges and endpapers. A little darkening to board edges. Jacket somewhat foxed and rubbed; minor chipping to spine ends and corner tips; new price written in blue ink to front flap. *** Debut novel by American writer Charles Wright (1932-2008), praised by James Baldwin and Kay Boyle at the time. About the “lonely horror of the junkie and homosexual world of New York” (Boyle).