The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis - 1981 Bantam Books Paperback Lucy Fitch Perkins The novel is notable for

The novel is notable for taking the subject of Robin Hood

only aggravated a militaristic national temperament

Did you ever see one of the steam shovels at work on the Panama Canal

" where recollection becomes legend

The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis - 1981 Bantam Books Paperback Lucy Fitch Perkins The novel is notable forCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Blurb: "In The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis has written an utterly realistic novel about an alien human on Earth. Realistic in the way Newton interfaces with human society. Realistic in its portrait of his strengths and failures and confusion. Realistic in its depiction of what it's like to be an alien. Realistic enough to become a metaphor for something inside us all,