O'CONNOR, EDWIN — All in the Family

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1966. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped medallion on cover, fore-edge deckle. Edwin O'Connor (1918 - 1968) was an American radio personality, journalist, and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for The Edge of Sadness (1961). His novels focused on the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests. His last novel, All in the Family, appeared in 1966. (It has no connection at all to the later television series of the same name). It is a profile of a Massachusetts family with a driving father who has political ambitions for his sons. It is not a roman à clef but the clan is certainly reminiscent of the Kennedy family.. The volume is unmrked, tight and square. The dust jacket, now in Mylar, is chipped at the head and heel of the spine and has a 1" closed tear on the front panel. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD.. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 434 pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .