Doctor Fischer of Geneva
First edition.
A very fine signed copy in publisher's cloth with otiginal dust jacket.
8vo of 139 pp. publisher’s cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, first issue with "leave alone" to p.9.
A signed presentation inscription from the author to title.
Greene, Graham. Doctor Fischer of Geneva: or, The Bomb Party.
London, Sydney, Toronto, The Bodley head, 1980.
Not in Wobbe.
Doctor Fischer despises the human race. A millionaire spends his time and money planning notorious parties, entertainments designed to expose the shallowness and greed of his craven hangers-on. Black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel.
But who is the strange Doctor Fischer, this man who hosts receptions in his sumptuous Geneva residence for which more than one guest would be ready to sell their soul? The thing is, Doctor Fischer is rich, immensely rich, so everyone is willing to indulge his often cruel whims to be among the recipients of his very generous gifts. Driven by curiosity, Alfred Jones, his handicapped son-in-law in his fifties, will also allow himself to get caught up in the extravagant doctor’s malicious games. With this dark and cruel tale—one of his last works—Graham Greene depicts a society corrupted by the lure of gain. A disillusioned moralist, but how clear-sighted!
