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Beckett, Samuel
by Echo's Bones
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0802120458
- ISBN 13
- 9780802120458
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About This Item
New York. 2014. July 2014. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780802120458. Edited by Mark Nixon. 121 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Charles Rue Woods. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories - his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, Echo's Bones', to serve as the final piece. However, he'd already killed off several of the characters - including the protagonist, Belacqua - throughout the book, and had to resurrect them from the dead. The story was politely rejected by his editor, as it was considered too imaginatively playful, too allusive, and too undisciplined - qualities now recognized as quintessentially Beckett. As a result, Echo's Bones' (not to be confused with the poem and collection of poems of the same title) remained unpublished - until now, nearly eight decades later. This little-known text is introduced by the preeminent Beckett scholar, Dr. Mark Nixon, who situates the work in terms of its biographical context and textual references, examining how it is a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work. Beckett confessed that he included all I knew' in the story. It harnesses an immense range of subjects: science, philosophy, religion, literature; combining fairy tales, gothic dreams, and classical myth. This posthumous publication marks the unexpected and highly exciting return of a literary legend. inventory #40807 ISBN: 9780802120458.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40807
- Title
- Beckett, Samuel
- Author
- Echo's Bones
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802120458
- ISBN 13
- 9780802120458
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- This edition first published
- 2014-07
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