Discoloration on book jacket due to sun exposure/age Pages yellowing due to age Stein & Day, 1967 book club edition, 544pages The Arrangement is a 1967 novel by Elia Kazan, narrated by a successful Greek-American advertising executive and magazine writer living in an affluent Los Angeles suburb who suffers a nervous breakdown due to the stress of the way in which he has lived his life – the "arrangement" of the title. In 1969 Kazan made it into a film. The Arrangement was a best-seller and garnered generally favorable reviews but it has been out of print since the 1980s. Movie- 1969 Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway