The Green Child
by Read, Herbert, introduction by Kenneth Rexroth
- Used
- Condition
- VG PB
- Seller
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Sebago, Maine, United States
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About This Item
NY: New Directions. VG PB. nd. 3rd ptg. "The sheer perfection of the writing is very rare in English since the loosening of standards in Nineteenth Century fiction." . ....reality is again entrance and translucent with the light of a natural glory behind it...what is more remarkable....one gradually comes to realize that it is about this state of being as such that Read is writing. Read's only novel, a utopian one, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South Aerican pampas and then to a mysterious and eternal underground land of caves. .
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- Bookseller
- Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS051828I
- Title
- The Green Child
- Author
- Read, Herbert, introduction by Kenneth Rexroth
- Book Condition
- Used - VG PB
- Edition
- 3rd ptg
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- nd
- Keywords
- "The sheer perfection of the writing is very rare in English since the, loosening of standards in Nineteenth Century fiction.", Utopia, England, South America
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About the Seller
Crabtree's Collection Old Books
Biblio member since 2005
Sebago, Maine
About Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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