one hundred dollar misunderstanding
Subtitle: ''What a find! I've been recommending it to everyone. This book should create a sensation.'' Henry Miller
Edition: Ballantine Books 2nd Printing ed.
Series: Ballantine books, U7000 [$0.95]
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc., a div. of Pocket Books Inc.
Published: December 1963
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
Copyright date: 1961 by Robert Gover
Other titles: One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding
Description: "Since 1962 when this novel 1st appeared in the USA, it's been a Rorschach test. An early review of it appeared prominently in the NY Times Book Review, shortly after which the paper refused to run advertisements for the book. Time Magazine gave it a rave while Newsweek was silent, then made up for that silence by using the word genius when they reviewed my 2nd novel. Some prominent black people denounced it, as did right-wing white people with more enthusiasm, but Malcolm X & Ertha Kit [Eartha (Mae Keith.) Kitt, American singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, 1927-2008], I was told, both loved the novel, as did conservative guru William F. Buckley, Jr., in print. 

Thru the Sixties & into the Seventies, it was considered radical & racy, yet quite a few universities listed it in various courses, from comparative religions (Yale) to contemporary literature & sociology. During the Eighties, it almost disappeared from the books in print list, but trade paper editions by Grove Press sold quietly from the late Eighties through the Nineties.

Nowadays, I teach a novel writing workshop by correspondence course, which means I work with a great variety of wannabe novelists from all economic classes & ethnicity. Some buy this novel & read it, & let me know what they think of it. Generally, they do not laugh till they ache, as readers reported doing back in the Sixties. Nineties readers are more inclined to read it as I originally intended it to be read: as a quick, satirical story about a tragic fact of American life. Anyone who happens upon this & also reads the novel is welcome to email me his/her response: gocycles@aol.com."--Robert Gover, 2/1999
Notes: **Printed in Canada** / **1st & 2nd printing, both in December 1963** / **Other sys. no.: (OCoLC)284650**