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A first novel, this is a slight, mildly amusing satire of some obvious American foibles. Pitched in low key throughout and therefore casually effective this records the experiences of an unlikely 74 year old hero. Retired after fifty years in a Baltimore bank, Dick Twombly lives with his daughter Kate in New York. Goodnatured, easygoing, he is regarded, by Kate and her dull husband Ben, as near senile, the neighbors suspect him of being a dirt...

First published in 1959, Fade Out is a stunning, surreal criticism of American life in the materialistic, youth-and money-crazed 1950s. Its hero is Dick Twombley, a 74-year old retired bank clerk who struggles to retain what remains of his dignity in a world that regards old age as an embarrassment. When he is mistakenly accused of kidnapping two little girls he has befriended, Dick's daughter packs him off to a suburban New York City retireme...