The Public Burning
New York: The Viking Press, 1977.
First Edition. Hardcover.
The first major work of contemporary fiction to use historical figures as characters, the novel reimagines the three fateful days in 1953 that culminated with the execution of alleged communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Familiar characters like Vice-President Richard Nixon, Betty Crocker, Joe McCarthy, the Marx Brothers, Walter Winchell, and Uncle Sam and his nemesis The Phantom, and other contemporary celebrities and ordinary citizens converge in Times Square in June of 1953 to attend the Rosenbergs’ carnivalesque “public burning.”
Item #902110ISBN: 067058200X
6-1/4 x 9-1/2", quarter white cloth, black paper over boards, x, 534pp.
Fine in moderately rubbed dust wrapper with a bit of stress to extreme tips, in protective mylar.
Price: $125.00