A vintage paperback in good condition: cover has wear; pages have some wear and are age-toned; back cover has been punctured.
Lazarus, alias Paul Webster, is the victim of his body and civilization run amok. He is raised from the dead in a bed at the Foundation where he had willed his dying self to this anonymous institution. From his bed Webster remembers repellent physical humiliations (he had been fired as a professor because he had unwittingly wiped his brow with his dirty underwear, at a faculty reception; he had lost his wife; etc.). There was Harry, in a condemned building, electrocuted on the toilet. And Suskind, the Chinese Jew who analyzed the Junk of civilization. Webster finally tries, to escape the (Foundation, after knocking out an ""Institute"" spy in the mortuary. And so it goes through endless subsequent deaths and revivals.... The book has a certain ghoulish humor but none of the incidents are gratuitous. The angered protests against present and ever-present fears come through. Though they are occasionally predictable, the book demands reaction. Kirkus Review
