Malamud, Bernard — God's Grace

Farrar Straus Giroux, New York 1982 1st US edition. Cloth spined boards, dj, VG/VG. [xii]+223pp, dustjacket a little worn along the edges & spine faded, fore edges grubby. A novel which tells of the last surviving human, who survives nuclear war & a divine flood and who then attempts to build the perfect civilizations with monkeys as citizens on a desert island. The last novel by the American author Bernard Malamud [ 1914 - 1986 ] who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1966 novel 'The Fixer' and who also wrote 'The Natural'.