"The House Of Certain Death" 1949 COSSERY, Albert Vests/ Waistcoats

"The House Of Certain Death" 1949 COSSERY, Albert Vests/ WaistcoatsCOSSERY, Albert [186] pp. New Directions 1949 6 1 2" x 4 1 2" Jacket design by Alvin Lustig The House of Certain Death is set in a crumbling mansion in Cairos old city, where an ensemble cast of melon sellers, stove repairmen, street cleaners, monkey trainers, and their wives all bicker and philosophize while waiting for the roof to fall on their heads; and there is indeed a suggestion of class conflict between the tenants and their landlorda

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