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The Hair of Harold Roux 

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Thomas WilliamsThe Hair of Harold Roux (1974)
A novel by Thomas Williams

 
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction
"A superb and engrossing achievement."
Joseph Heller


Aaron Benham--professor, novelist, friend, mentor, family man, and sometime idealist--is supposed to be working on his new novel, The Hair of Harold Roux. But instead, tormented by the chaos of his present and the demons of his past, he is riding his motorcycle too fast, drinking too much, and thinking too often and deeply. Through Aaron's rich, if angst-ridden, mind we discover that his novel-within-a-novel is really a thinly disguised account of his own turbulent post-World War II collegiate days. Harold Roux, a naive but well-meaning ex-GI who hides his premature baldness under an ill-fitting hairpiece, and Allard Benson, Aaron's fictional alter ego, become locked in what Aaron sardonically describes as "a simple story of seduction, rape, madness, and murder--the usual human preoccupations."

 
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Hardback Editions

May 1975 : Hardback
Title: Hair of Harold Roux
Author(s): Thomas Williams
ISBN: 0-00-222001-6 / 978-0-00-222001-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Collins
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1974 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B001JZG78OTitle: The Hair of Harold Roux
Author(s): Thomas Williams
Publisher: Random House
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1974 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0394489888Title: The Hair of Harold Roux
Author(s): Thomas Williams
ISBN: 0-394-48988-8 / 978-0-394-48988-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House
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1966 : Hardback
Title: The Hair of Harold Roux
Author(s): Thomas Williams
Publisher: Random House
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Paperback Editions

June 2011 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 160819583XTitle: The Hair of Harold Roux: A Novel
Author(s): Thomas Williams, Andre Dubus III
ISBN: 1-60819-583-X / 9781608195831 (USA edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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February 1995 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 087451701XTitle: The Hair of Harold Roux (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Author(s): Thomas Williams
ISBN: 0-87451-701-X / 978-0-87451-701-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: New Hampshire
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February 1988 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0385242514Title: The Hair of Harold Roux
Author(s): Thomas Williams
ISBN: 0-385-24251-4 / 978-0-385-24251-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Anchor
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November 1975 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0345253000Title: The Hair of Harold Roux
Author(s): Thomas Williams
ISBN: 0-345-25300-0 / 978-0-345-25300-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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January 1974 : Paperback
Title: THE HAIR OF HAROLD ROUX
Author(s): Thomas Williams
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Other Editions

June 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004VLZ5QITitle: The Hair of Harold Roux: A Novel
Author(s): Thomas Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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