Giveaway

New York: Random House. (c.1954). First Edition. Hardcover. (decorated black cloth; no dust jacket) [solid copy, minor bumping at a couple of corners, previous owner's address label at bottom of ffep]. Story of a young fellow from Gary, Indiana, who comes to Hollywood and gets involved with a blonde and her mother, who make their living appearing on TV giveaway programs. The book's depiction of the underbelly of Fifties Hollywood from a television angle makes for entertaining reading, but unfortunately Fisher doesn't quite pull off the amalgam of "Catcher in the Rye" and "The Day of the Locust" that he seems to be going for. Eddie, his narrator/protagonist, is no Holden Caulfield -- and Fisher was no J.D. Salinger (or Nathanael West, come to that). . Very Good+.