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Santa Roca, CA: Black Sparrow, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight Like New condition copy in original Very Good condition mylar jacket. 323 pages. 1/4 black cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. First edition, one of 300 trade hardcover copies.
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Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski Hardcover - 1994
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- Title Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski
- Author Russell Harrison
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 323
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Black Sparrow Press, Santa Roca, CA
- Date 1994
- ISBN 9780876859605 / 0876859600
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 5.94 x 1.05 in (22.96 x 15.09 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects National characteristics, American, in, Beat generation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94035255
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight Like New condition copy in original Very Good condition mylar jacket. 323 pages. First delux edition, signed and numbered by author. number 36 of 526 copies. 1/4 blue cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. incudes original seragraph print by author.
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Santa Rosa ::: Black Sparrow Press,,, 1994... First Trade Edition. A Fine unread copy in Acetate dust jacket. This is the first book-length critical and scholarly assessment of Bukowski's work and takes a close look at his poetry and fiction. Although Harrison's writings on Bukowski's poetry and fiction are scholarly, they are hardly unpartisan, adopting an almost strident tone in arguments that the late poet's work remains unjustly unappreciated. Harrison argues consistently if not always convincingly, Bukowski has been ignored by academics and anthologists in part because he doesn't fit neatly into a genre and in part because his subject is the working class. Harrison presents Bukowski as a ``social lyricist'' and ``a proletarian poet'' who saw life in America as deadening, routinized, and whose achievement was to make poetry out of his refusal to buy into the American Dream. Harrison is at his most helpful when tracing the literary and popular influences in Bukowski's work, from the Surrealists and…
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Santa Rosa ::: Black Sparrow Press,,, 1994... Limited Edition. A Fine unread copy in Acetate dust jacket. This is one of 100 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author. This is the first book-length critical and scholarly assessment of Bukowski's work and takes a close look at his poetry and fiction. Although Harrison's writings on Bukowski's poetry and fiction are scholarly, they are hardly unpartisan, adopting an almost strident tone in arguments that the late poet's work remains unjustly unappreciated. Harrison argues consistently if not always convincingly, Bukowski has been ignored by academics and anthologists in part because he doesn't fit neatly into a genre and in part because his subject is the working class. Harrison presents Bukowski as a ``social lyricist'' and ``a proletarian poet'' who saw life in America as deadening, routinized, and whose achievement was to make poetry out of his refusal to buy into the American Dream. Harrison is at his most helpful when tracing the literary…
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