Memoirs of a shy pornographer : an amusement

Author(s)

    • Patchen, Kenneth
    • Williams, Jonathan

Bibliographic Information

Memoirs of a shy pornographer : an amusement

by Kenneth Patchen ; introduction by Jonathan Williams

(New Directions classics, 879)

New Directions, 1999

  • : pbk

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? Are you in the habit of reading books that could have been written by anybody? Do you really want the truth? Do you know how angels learn to fly? What would you feed a green deer? Do you think a profound social message can be conveyed by a book that is comic in character? When Kenneth Patchen's comic masterpiece, The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer first appeared in 1945, these questions were asked on the dust jacket. They have never seemed more relevant. The hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey-a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer, written with what Diane DiPrima called Patchen's "tender silliness," should inspire a new generation of readers

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Details

  • NCID
    BA51760413
  • ISBN
    • 0811214117
  • LCCN
    98037235
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    242 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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