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JD: A Novel
Mark Merlis
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Description for JD: A Novel
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 438.
Jonathan Ascher, a radical writer and cultural hero in the 1960s, has been dead for thirty years. When a would-be biographer approaches his widow, Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband’s papers. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, Jonathan’s adventures in the sexual underground, and the social upheavals that led to his famous book JD. As Martha reads on, she finds herself in a long-distance conversation with her dead husband, fighting with him again about their rocky life together and learning about the ... Read more
Jonathan Ascher, a radical writer and cultural hero in the 1960s, has been dead for thirty years. When a would-be biographer approaches his widow, Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband’s papers. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York literary scene, Jonathan’s adventures in the sexual underground, and the social upheavals that led to his famous book JD. As Martha reads on, she finds herself in a long-distance conversation with her dead husband, fighting with him again about their rocky life together and learning about the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Madison, United States
ISBN
9780299303501
SKU
V9780299303501
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Ref
99-15
About Mark Merlis
Mark Merlis is the author of the novels American Studies, An Arrow’s Flight, and Man About Town. His work has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.
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