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The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel
by Edward Gorey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- USED Very Good/Good Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151004358
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004355
- Seller
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Montclair, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 1999. Hardcover. USED Very Good/Good Jacket. Clipped jacket. Interior clean and tight.
Synopsis
On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply, but his mind will keep reverting to the last biscuit on the plate." So begins what the Times Literary Supplement called "a small masterpiece." TUH is a look at the literary life and its "attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom." But, as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, urns, desuetude, disaffection, claws, loss, trebizond, napkins, shame, stones, distance, fever, antipodes, mush, glaciers, incoherence, labels, miasma, amputation, tides, deceit, mourning, elsewards. You get the point. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing The Unstrung Harp. It's a cracked mirror of a book, and it's dedicated to RDP or Real Dear Person.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 577152
- Title
- The Unstrung Harp; or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel
- Author
- Edward Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- USED Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151004358
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004355
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- May 1999
- Pages
- 64
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Montclair Book Center
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Montclair, New Jersey
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