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Jamie is my heart's desire : a novel / by Alfred Chester ; afterword by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling.
- Title
- Jamie is my heart's desire : a novel / by Alfred Chester ; afterword by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling.
- Author
- Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971.
- Publication
- Boston : David R. Godine, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3505.H679 J36 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 273 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Alfred Chester's masterpiece, The Exquisite Corpse, was one of the literary sensations of the 1960s, a surreal, homoerotic phantasmagoria that became a cult classic. It was preceded by this, his only other novel, out of print since the late 1950s, a work more straitlaced in literary form but just as shockingly original in content. It tells the story of a cynical Brooklyn undertaker, Harry, and the object of his affection, a beautiful and deceased young man named Jamie. But does Jamie really exist, or is he merely Harry's fantasy, the illusion that makes his life endurable? Harry's friends are divided on this matter, and Chester leaves it to his readers to decide.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- "A Black Sparrow book."
- "First published in Great Britain in 1956 by André Deutsch"--T.p. verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1574232061 (pbk.)
- 9781574232066 (pbk.)
- 1567922791 (pbk.)
- 9781567922790 (pbk.)
- 9781567923056 (deluxe edition, hardcover)
- 1567923054 (deluxe edition, hardcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2006018110
- OCLC
- 70045872
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library