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The Unstrung Harp : Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel
by Gorey, Edward
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151004358
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004355
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Toronto, ON, Canada: Harcourt, Brace, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Very Fine. Gorey, Edward. Printed in Singapore. Slightly smaller, thinner book, color-illustrated covers with red and black curtain design at top edges, a Gorey man sitting at a harp on front, two men listening on back, unpaginated, an illustration on every other page. DJbeneath mylar, illustrated in same colors and illustrations as book covers.. DJ and book, both Very Fine.
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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- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16189
- Title
- The Unstrung Harp : Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel
- Author
- Gorey, Edward
- Illustrator
- Gorey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151004358
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004355
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- FICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Humor;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
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New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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