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Author Mudrick, Marvin, author.

Title Books are not life but then what is? / 'Marvin Mudrick ; with an new introduction by Jervey Tervalon ; cover illustration by Mike Solomon.

Publication Info. Great Barrington, Massachusetts : Berkshire Publishing Group, 2018.
1979

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents I. People: just like you and me -- The Emperor of China -- Su cosa mi cosa; or, Busy busy busy -- The offending member -- The entertainer -- I don't care what mama don't allow -- Pushkin in English -- The ugly duck -- Father knows best -- Portnoy's bachelor uncle -- Aged eagles and dirty old men -- Issues and answers: or, If you've tried it don't knock it -- The smell of martality -- II. Scholars: the soft recesses of uneasy minds -- The blind men and the elephant -- Stone-deaf theologians -- III. Operators: if they don't like it here why don't they go back where they came from? -- Adorable ideas and absent plenitudes -- Mad dogs and anglo shrinks -- A thrust in the hand is worth two in the bush -- IV. Books in bunches: the fox and the grapes -- Old pros with news from nowhere -- Fiction and truth -- V. Four ways of looking: books are not life but then what is? -- Chamber of horrors -- Good and proper (I) -- Good and proper (II) -- Mrs. Harris and the hend of all things.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Tervalon, Jervey, writer of introduction.
Solomon, Mike, illustrator.
Other Form: Print version: Mudrick, Marvin. Books are not life but then what is? Great Barrington, Massachusetts : Berkshire Publishing Group, 2018, c1979 xii, 260 pages 9781614720270 (DLC) 2016052056
ISBN 9781614720270
9781614728863 (e-book)

 
    
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