New York: Julian Messner, 1960. Item #937

8vo.  210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [viii], 246 pp.  Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with rubbing at the edges, head and tail of spine with minor tears, a bit fading to the color of the jacket, otherwise very good copy.

First edition.  Di Donato's third novel, published ten years after his highly acclaimed book, Christ in Concrete.   In this three Circles of Light Di Donato revisits his childhood and his awakening as a young man, both in terms of his sexuality and growing responsibilities to his mother and family.  Of the novel Ben Hecht wrote, Three Circles of Light is a beautiful book.  Life seems worth living after its reading."

Price: $175.00