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"The Fig Tree" 1959 MENEN, Aubrey
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MENEN, Aubrey
[192] pp.
Charles Scribner's Sons
1959
8 1/4" x 5 5/8"
Jacket design by Mircea Vasiliu
Harry Welsey is a scientist with a vision, humourless and imbued with a sense of mission. His aim is to save mankind from the population explosion by inventing the perfect oral contraceptive. He converts a fig tree into the tree of life, and the world applauds his achievement; even the Vatican blesses the project. But the tree gets the last laugh