Good Benito

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 215, [1]. Quarter-bound light blue cloth over blue paper boards titled in silver to spine, with author's initials stamped in silver to front; fore-edges untrimmed. Top edge stained blue. Dust jacket design by Marjorie Anderson with photo by Marc Romanelli and blurbs by Michiko Kakutani, John Melmoth, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, and Richard Eder to rear panel (priced $21.00 on front flap).

Author's second book. A novel about the emotional life of a scientist, Bennett, who must reconcile the chaos and imperfections of life with that of the fine order of his scientific understanding. Lightman teaches physics as well as writing at MIT. "A highly original and imaginative thinker." –New York Times