The Top of the Hill by Irwin Shaw (1979, Hardcover)

The Top of the Hill
by Irwin Shaw
Publisher:  Delacorte Press
Copyright 1979
Book Club Edition

The world-famous author of Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Theif has created one of his most memorable characters for one of his most unusual novels:  a brilliantly written story of a man who needs to risk death to feel fully alive, a man who urns away from a comfortable, outwardly successful life toward dangerous pleasures.

Michael Storm's joy comes from physical danger -- as a parachutist, a surfer, a hang glider, a free faller, a reckless skier.  Oppressed by his life in New York City, he feels choked by his career as an executive in a high-powered office, choked by the airless world of air-conditioned towers.

 His own sanity depends on his finding a purer, simpler, more vigorous existence, and he sets out to search for one, even though he loses his wife in the process.  He finds the physical excitement he craves -- but along with it developments he has not contemplated.  For some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled prove as threatening as the most dangerous of his sports.

The Top of the Hill promises to be not only another best seller but another of Irwin Shaw's landmarks.  It is filled with scenes that rank with the most exciting he has ever written.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear, tear and creasing.

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