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BARBARA JORDAN Speaking the Truth WIth Eloquent Thunder
by EDITED BY MAX SHERMAN
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine /Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0292716370
- ISBN 13
- 9780292716377
- Seller
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albany, New York, United States
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About This Item
AUSTIN, TEXAS: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2007.
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
- Gian Luigi Fine Books Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017023
- Title
- BARBARA JORDAN Speaking the Truth WIth Eloquent Thunder
- Author
- EDITED BY MAX SHERMAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0292716370
- ISBN 13
- 9780292716377
- Publisher
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
- Place of Publication
- AUSTIN, TEXAS
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2006017267
- Keywords
- HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TEXAS
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