As if the book were not uncommon enough, this is a review copy, with a promotional sheet from Virginia Kirkus Service laid in, and is INSCRIBED by Young to author Donald Newlove on the front end paper. Over-wrapped with a facsimile dw that gives the book a handsome appearance. She had cried outside many gates of stillness where only her own voice had cried back to her. 1908-1995 (Click on photos to link to photo gallery) Marguerite Young upon completion of Miss MacIntosh My Darling. It is a picaresque, psychological novel-a novel of the road. A Web Site dedicated to the living legacy of Marguerite Vivian Young, American author, 1908-1995. She began the novel in 1945, in the shadow of Hiroshima, and proceeded for the next two decades to work on it each day, putting in a reliable eight hours. An underground classic - whose main character is an opium addict - which poses the question: ?What shall we do when, fleeing from illusion, we are confronted by illusion? In spite of its size, the book is near fine with light-to-moderate handling to the spine the original dw is present, thought only in good condition with an area of loss to the rear panel along the gutter and some internal conservators repair. This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. Marguerite Young spent eighteen years of her life writing Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, the amount of time it requires to raise a child. A massive 1,198-page novel 17 years in the writing, and the author?s only novel, in addition to two books of poetry, a collection each of short stories and essays, and two volumes of nonfiction.
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