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Book Description
A landmark of postmodern American fiction, LETTERS is (as the subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by seven fictitious drolls & dreamers each of which imagines himself factual." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange a novel's worth of letters during a 7-Continue
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lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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Sometimes a novel of a markedly eccentric character drags with it an image of its ideal reader. Letters, an immense work of perverse ingenuity, might have been designed on order for that little band of academic scholar-critics, now mostly middle-aged ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 772 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 1564780619
- ISBN-13: 9781564780614
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Pub date: Sep 01, 1994
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9781564780614 | Paperback | $14.95 | $12.80 | bn.com |
| $14.95 | $18.67 | The Book Depository | ||
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