The Chute by Albert Halper (RB118)

Published 1938: First UK Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original black cloth with red titles on the spine. 558 very clean and bright pages, first free page missing, mild speckled foxing on the first few pages. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age. (RB118)

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Albert Halper's Radical Novel The Chute. The story of one man's struggle against greed and a lust for power.

Set in Chicago during the Depression, this is the story of a young man who dreamed of being an architect, but finds himself working in a mail order house. Upon its publication, Kirkus Reviews stated that Halper "is the foremost of the proletarian writers today and this is his most ambitious book, and singularly timely in its analysis of the inside of labor conditions in a big organization." A Rideout novel.

Albert Halper (1904–1984) was an American novelist and playwright.

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