Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good+. 1971. Viking. 1st Edition.

Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve.

Farragan's Retreat follows a wealthy Irish-Catholic clan in Philadelphia in the context of the Vietnam War. Older siblings Jim and Anna are virulently patriotic and virulently racist, and their children have, respectively, lost an arm and a life fighting overseas. When Arthur Farragan's son Simon dodges the draft, escapes to Canada, and writes an apology note to Ho Chi Min, Anna and Jim decide that the only course of action is to send Arthur up to Montreal to murder his only son