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1. Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

1. 190 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Robert Creeley had made something of a reputation as a poet when he wrote this novel. It is based on his failing marriage to Ann MacKinnon. It is set on an unnamed Spanish island but is obviously Majorca, where Creeley and MacKinnon lived with their three children.

Series statement

1. Scribner First editions

Uniform title

1. Scribner first editions

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Married people > Fiction
3. American fiction > 20th century
4. Psychoanalysis
5. Psychoanalysis
6. psychoanalysis
7. Married people
8. American fiction

Genre/Form

1. Fictional Work
2. Novels
3. Fiction
4. Fiction.
5. Novels.
6. Autographs (Provenance)
7. Romans.

Contents

1. Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Weekend / Ann Beattie -- The bystander / Gina Berriault -- The Amish farmer / Vance Bourjaily -- 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 / Richard Brautigan -- Verona : a young woman speaks / Harold Brodkey -- Talk of heroes / Carol Bly -- Fever / Raymond Carver -- The fisherman from Chihuahua / Evan S. Connell -- Midair / Frank Conroy -- Willi / E.L. Doctorow -- The fat girl / Andre Dubus -- A poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin -- Rock springs / Richard Ford -- The lover of horses / Tess Gallagher -- Redemption / John Gardner -- Dream children / Gail Godwin -- The ledge / Lawrence Sargent Hall.
2. (Cont'd) Water liars / Barry Hannah -- Letters from the Samantha / Mark Helprin -- Ile forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Shiloh / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- The misfits / Arthur Miller -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The used-boy raisers / Grace Paley -- The heavenly animal / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Walking out / David Quammen -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Akhnilo / James Salter -- The Christian roommates / John Updike -- The wedding / Joy Williams -- The liar / Tobias Wolff.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Novel.
2. ExRML copy 1 is bound in cloth, copy 2 in paper.
3. ExRML copies 1 and 2 are gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Richard M. Ludwig.