Pripad Nevrneho Muze by Vacha, Stanislav - 1988

Praha: Mlada Fronta, 1977. Hardcover. New/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated white linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/nips, chips, closed tears to edges, & sticker removal scar to lower spine. Novel of experiences of a mature scholar studying in the alien world of America --- an issue of lifestyles when transported from one world to another. It's not likely that the author ever saw Mass Ave, but nonetheless the story revolves around Stepán Duba, a 40 year old divorced father of two, his year's stay in Cambridge, MA. to further studies in sociology --- a discipline in which he has both talent and ambition. He meets what he knows to be the last great love of his life, but chooses his children and homeland --- death and rebirth?. Ambiciózní, nadaný sociolog, za svého roeního studijního pobytu na proslulé Harvardské univerzite v Bostonu (!) ...." [Publisher's blurb] 282 pages. Fine copy in lesser dustjacket.