 It was finally accepted by U. K. publisher Heinemann and published in 1963.Grossman's protagonist, Charles Kraft works as a demographer for the United Nations but quietly attempts to subvert the aims of his conventional world.He takes of up with gang of Brooklyn hoodlums, has an affair with one of its female members, conspires to blow up a city power plant, and allows his wife to find him in bed with his own sister.