The Fifth Sally

by Daniel Keyes (signed)
Cover by Robert Anthony

Houghton Mifflin First Edition

Description: Hardback book published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1980. The copyright page printing status bar is complete, making this a first printing and there is a date copy of '0980' in the front dust jacket flap. Inscribed 'For Juli Stein - with best wishes,' by the author on the title page.

From the front flap: Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon was a three-and-a-half-million-copy best seller in paperback - as well as a musical and movie called Charly. His new novel is another riveting, dramatic search into the depths of a strange psychological case.

Sally Porter is a drab waitress, divorcee, and loner in the great city. But, though she is unaware of it, she is also four other, quite different people: Nola, the cold, independent artist who has a studio in Greenwich Village; Derry, the happy-go-lucky tomboy; Bella, the sexpot with a talent for singing and dancing; and finally, Jinx, the hate-filled killer. Whenever events put too much of a strain on Sally Porter, she feels a headache and a blackout coming on - and a new character takes over. If there is a man to be fascinated, she will become Bella. If there is an intellectual problem, she will become Nola. And - as happens in the opening scene of the novel - if there is a rapist to be dealt with, she becomes the vicious Jinx.

It is the task of the wise and patient psychiatrist, Dr. Roger Ash - a man who nevertheless has severe problems of his own - to deal with this extreme case of multiple personality and, through painstaking therapy, to try to fuse the four disparate personalities into "the fifth Sally." His struggle and near-disasters become the major strand of the story.

This novel is a brilliant fictional rendition based on fact, and it makes an even more curious and fascinating story than Sybil or The Three Faces of Eve.

Condition: Binding - very good, top and bottom of spine bumped, slight wear to the corner tips, slight rubbing of the cloth, page edges age darkened and slightly soiled. Dust jacket - very good, quite a bit of edgewear and wrinkling, moderate rubbing, front flap is price clipped, in dust jacket protector.

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