John Braine — The Vodi

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this "kitchen sink gothic" novel by John Braine, centred on a man bedridden with tuberculosis whose dark reflections give rise to haunting visions. In the publisher's original dark navy cloth binding. First edition.Complete with the original price clipped dust wrapper.In this work, central character Dick Corvey meditates on events from his earlier life and is visited by 'the Vodi', a malevolent race of small creatures who seek to persecute and destroy the unlucky.The novelist M. John Harrison names this as one of his favourite books of all time, defining its genre as "kitchen sink gothic".John Braine (1922–1986) was a leading figure of Britain"s post-war "Angry Young Men" literary movement, best known for Room at the Top (1957). In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely, with the slightest trace of shelf wear to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, smart. Clipped. Slight soiling to wraps. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in one or two very minor closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just one or two spots to the fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.