Zone of the Interior.

Sigal (Clancy)

Zone of the Interior.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. [x], 277, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in pink and blue, corners gently bumped, a few tiny spots to top edge, dustjacket a little frayed, good

Publication Details: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1976]

Notes: With a long and revealing inscription by Sigal to the flyleaf, presenting the book to the author and bibliophile John Baxter: 'Dear John - I honestly can't recall if this is "autobiography" or not. It isn't, I think. This was the bloodiest hard piece I've ever written. It's meant to be a comedy. The Brits never got the joke - They banned it. All best, Clancy'.The reason for its veto in Britain was singular: its 'miracle-making Scottish guru Dr. Willie Last' was a portrait of the psychiatrist R.D. Laing - a figure elsewhere described by Sigal as 'the Bob Dylan of "existential" psychoanalysis' ...moreWith a long and revealing inscription by Sigal to the flyleaf, presenting the book to the author and bibliophile John Baxter: 'Dear John - I honestly can't recall if this is "autobiography" or not. It isn't, I think. This was the bloodiest hard piece I've ever written. It's meant to be a comedy. The Brits never got the joke - They banned it. All best, Clancy'.The reason for its veto in Britain was singular: its 'miracle-making Scottish guru Dr. Willie Last' was a portrait of the psychiatrist R.D. Laing - a figure elsewhere described by Sigal as 'the Bob Dylan of "existential" psychoanalysis' - who had threatened libel action should anyone have the temerity to publish the satirical novel, based on the author's own experience of treatment at Laing's Kingsley Hall (here 'Meditation Manor') HIDE