I'll Never Go There Any More by Jerome Weidman

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1963. Pocket Books (Cardinal). 

A BAWDY, COCKEYED NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF 'I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE'

This is the story of a small, rather innocent, and very young man named Arthur Thacker. It begins the moment that the gates of Grand Central close behind him, and Arthur, who has never been anywhere but Albany, meets up with:

A once famous and wealthy criminal lawyer who has nothing left but thirty-two-dollar-a-week job and a passion for moldy sardines...

A young waitress from Oregon with a razor-edged tongue, a love for strong drink and a curious career behind her...

A lovely woman in her middle forties who began her career on Broadway and is ending it in the only profession that is older than acting...

Toward the end of this novel the story reaches out and grabs Arthur, who has thought of himself as an innocent bystander, and shakes into tiny bits his serenity, his previous notions, his whole life.

And quite wisely he decides

I'LL NEVER GO THERE ANY MORE.