Hi! You're looking at a great overall condition book which is OUT OF PRINT and a classic novel written by STEPHEN BECKER--the book is a collectible STATED FIRST EDITION and is a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy and NOT price-clipped, with the original $6.95 price in the upper corner of the front inner flap. This book is in great overall condition and is a former library copy with typical markings and a mylar plastic sleeve on the dustjacket, which is not attached to the boards; the book itself has small discolored spots on the upper and lower center edges where the jacket was formerly attached, a light split with exposure of the binding cheesecloth between p. 24 and 25 with just a few slight loosening of the early pages but no significant binding compromise, slight dings on the spine tips and just very light shelfwear and light evidence of gentle browsing but no other significant flaws; the dustjacket has just very light shelfwear otherwise but no other significant flaws!  The book is titled Dog Tags: A New Novel and it was written by STEPHEN BECKER; it was published by Random House in 1973 and is a STATED 1st EDITION copy.

Separated from his fellow American soldiers, Benny Beer walks alone on a frozen plain in Germany during World War II. Lost and afraid, he seeks shelter in an abandoned tavern and encounters a victim of the Holocaust. Benny tries to save the suffering man’s life, but never knows if he succeeds—he wakes up in a hospital bed, wounded and missing his dog tags, with no memory of how he got there.

Sent back to Brooklyn with a limp and a Purple Heart, Benny falls in love, gets married, and becomes a doctor—not necessarily in that order—but his life is just beginning when he is called to serve his country once more. In Korea, he is captured and sent to a Chinese prison camp, where for two and a half long years he practices the fine art of self-preservation and fights the cruelty and indifference of his captors with compassion, care, and a fierce sense of humor.

Poignant, witty, and authentic, Dog Tags is the story of an ordinary man in extraordinary times, of an awkward Jewish boy who grows up to become an American hero. Soldier, doctor, lover—Benny Beer is one of the most captivating protagonists in twentieth-century literature.

A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!