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Memoirs of Hecate County

(New York Review Books Classics)

By Louis Menand, Edmund Wilson

Paperback | 9781590170939

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Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of inteContinue

Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked stories combining the supernatural and the satirical, astute social observation and unusual personal detail. But the heart of the book, "The Princess with the Golden Hair," is a starkly realistic novella about New York City, its dance halls and speakeasies and slums. So sexually frank that for years Wilson's book was suppressed, this story is one of the great lost works of twentieth-century American literature: an astringent, comic, ultimately devastating exploration of lust and love, how they do and do not overlap.

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  • Edmund Wilson: Memoirs of Hecate County

    I make no secret on this blog of my fetish for the NYRB Classics series. But with more or less every title in their range exuding varieties of temptation, the decision on which ones to buy is always difficult: I mean, you can’t get them all. (Actuall ... (read full critics)

    theasylum published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 464 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1590170938
  • ISBN-13: 9781590170939
  • Publisher: New York Review Books Classics
  • Pub date: Sep 30, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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