LEVIN, Ira.
The Boys From Brazil.
New York: Random House , 1976.
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"Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster": First Edition of Ira Levin's The Boys From Brazil
First edition of this classic suspense novel, basis for the the 1978 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth with geometric design stamped in blind on front panel. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Author photograph by Bill Lulow.
Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil (1976) is a chilling thriller that blends speculative fiction with historical horror, imagining a postwar conspiracy by Nazi fugitives to revive the Third Reich through a clandestine cloning project involving Adolf Hitler’s DNA. Set against the backdrop of international espionage and the lingering trauma of the Holocaust, the novel explores themes of genetic determinism, the ethics of science, and the persistence of evil. Levin’s tightly plotted narrative and morally complex antagonist, Dr. Josef Mengele, evoke deep questions about identity, free will, and the haunting legacy of fascism.
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