The Good Apprentice

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New York: Viking, 1986. First American edition. Octavo with pink and purple pictorial jacket; cream and magenta half-cloth boards; 522 pages; 24 cm Very good (+) with some slight w ear to spine and edges; pagesa re clena and binding is tight; in very good jacket with edgewear and sunning to spine; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780670809400, 9780141186689"Edward gives his ingenuous friend, Mark, a drugged sandwich, a prank which ends tragically. Edward's subsequent guilt, self-hatred, and crisis of conscience providing one of the spiritual focal points of the event-filled tale." --Jacket copy. Show more