"The House Of Certain Death" 1949 COSSERY, Albert Entertaining 11 1/4" x 6 1/4"

11 1/4" x 6 1/4"

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"The House Of Certain Death" 1949 COSSERY, Albert Entertaining 11 1/4" x 6 1/4"COSSERY, 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