- Seller Inventory #: KB006023
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: First - First Trade Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0394529197
- ISBN 13: 9780394529196
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1984
- Keywords: y|FICTION::Historical|FICTION::Literary|FICTION::Religious
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First - First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0394529197 1st trade edition; 353 pages; some edge wear, light scuffing to jacket, bit of soiling to page ends; Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller.