Moloch or, This Gentile World

First edition. Large 8vo. Pp. xv, [xvi-xviii], 266, [4]. Quarter-bound burgundy cloth over beige paper boards, stamped in silver to spine. Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski (priced $18.95 on the front flap). Introduction by Mary V. Dearborn.

Set in 1920s New York, the novel charts the disintegrating marriage of the author's alter ego, Dion Moloch, an unscrupulous, philandering manager of the Great American Telegraph company.

Miller's first attempt at autobiographical fiction, a literary form he was later to perfect in Paris, written in 1927–28, and covering his unhappy years at Western Union and his unsuccessful first marriage. Discovered posthumously among his papers along with Crazy Cock by his biographer Mary V. Dearborn, who contributes an introduction.

[Shifreen & Jackson A282]