Season Of Anomy

Wole Soyinka  New York:The Third Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Grey boards with purple lettering. In pictorial dust jacket, 320 pp. The second novel from Nigerian Nobel prize winning writer, Wole Soyinka. Protagonist Ofeyi is a jingle writer for an advertising firm; when sent on business to a seaside town in an undisclosed country, Ofeyi is enamored with the lack of corruption and simplistic ways of the local people . When Ofeyi attempts to enact the customs in his native land this brings tension and the eventual kidnapping of his wife. Ofeyi must attempt to find her and bring her back. A tale of idealism and reality. Very good Ex library copy, some light foxing and bumped corners, else a fine copy.