(NY), Delacorte, (1978). His third book, a magical realist novel about an American soldier in Vietnam who decides to walk away from the war and go to Paris overland. Winner of the National Book Award. With marginal notes by Geoffrey Wolff, to whom this copy belonged. Many of the notes indicate where passages remind Wolff of other books, authors or characters, e.g. "Combat Zone," "Yossarian," and, once, "Toni Morrison." Wolff has also listed (p. 32), grades on the book based on its review by other authors and in other periodicals. Mottled cloth; very good in a very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. [#028985] SOLD