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The Ninth Wave

The Ninth Wave

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The Ninth Wave

by Burdick, Eugene

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  • Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good in Fair dj. 1956. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. [reading copy only, a sound but quite shelfworn book, with bumping/fraying to cloth at most corners; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous small tear and chips, most notably at the upper spine]. Novel about a guy who "rose to power by a series of almost mathematical calculations in which he used people's emotions instead of numbers," ultimately becoming "the biggest man in one of the biggest states in one of the biggest countries in the world." (All of which sounds like a chillingly modern premise for a book written during the supposedly buttoned-down 1950s.) This was the author's first novel; his next two, "The Ugly American" and "Fail-Safe," both written in collaboration with other writers, became well-known through their film adaptations; his final work, "The 480," published just a year before his death in 1965 at the age of 46, was a prescient work about the use of computer systems to manipulate electoral politics. .

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Seller
ReadInk US (US)
Seller's Inventory #
27540
Title
The Ninth Wave
Author
Burdick, Eugene
Illustrator
(dj design) William Barss
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good in Fair dj
Edition
Book Club Edition
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1956
Keywords
Psychology, Fiction: Vintage

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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket
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Book Club Edition
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