"Muscle Beach" 1959 WALLACH, Ira

"Muscle Beach" 1959 WALLACH, IraWALLACH, Ira [236] pp. Little, Brown and Company 1959 8 1 4" x 5 3 4" Jacket design by Barbara Corrigan Warmly inscribed by the author on FFEP upper right corner of front panel jacket chipped Muscle Beach is a 1959 novel by American writer Ira Wallach. It was reprinted in 1967 as a paperback under the new title Don't Make Waves. Plot Carlo Cofield, a restless WWII vet in New York City, alternates between work at the Atlantic Novelty Company and

WALLACH, Ira

[236] pp.

Little, Brown and Company

1959

8 1/4" x 5 3/4"

Jacket design by Barbara Corrigan

Warmly inscribed by the author on FFEP

upper right corner of front panel jacket chipped

Muscle Beach is a 1959 novel by American writer Ira Wallach. It was reprinted in 1967 as a paperback under the new title Don't Make Waves.

Plot

Carlo Cofield, a restless WWII vet in New York City, alternates between work at the Atlantic Novelty Company and hanging out at the Treble Bar listening to the Quo Vadis Quartet. Impulsively entering an office of Seaspray Swimming Pools, he pitches a sale to a client on Long Island. A condition of his making this sale is his being transferred to the Seaspray office in LA. During his flight to the Coast he places his neck-tie in an air-sickness bag for disposal, never to be worn again. In LA, he meets Vic Salter and his chimp Simeon in a bar up on Sunset. Vic introduces Carlo to hit songwriter Prescott Tom, whose sister Toby takes him to the beach to see the body builders. Carlo joins them to get close to the beautiful Jocelyn, but eventually he finds happiness and fulfillment with Toby.