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Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson 2004 NY Review PB, Suburban Erotica
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very Good condition range, please refer to photos”
- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781590170939
- Book Title
- Memoirs of Hecate County
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Item Weight
- 17.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 472 Pages
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Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County , Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked stories combining the supernatural and the satirical, astute social observation and unusual personal detail. But the heart of the book, "The Princess with the Golden Hair," is a starkly realistic novella about New York City, its dance halls and speakeasies and slums. So sexually frank that for years Wilson's book was suppressed, this story is one of the great lost works of twentieth-century American literature- an astringent, comic, ultimately devastating exploration of lust and love, how they do and do not overlap.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590170938
ISBN-13
9781590170939
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30240757
Product Key Features
Book Title
Memoirs of Hecate County
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Satire, Literary
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
472 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3545.I6245m4 2004
Reviews
"There is a true whiff of hell in Hecate County--in the low ceilings and cheap underwear of the sex idyll, the clothes and neuroses of the copulators....After 1946, Hecate Counties would spread and multiply and set the new cultural tone. The suburban home would replace the city street as the theater of hopes; private fulfillment and not public justice would set the pace of the pursuit of happiness. Wilson foretold it, casting his fiction in the coming mode, of sexual candor, dark sardonic fantasy, and confessional fragment." -- John Updike "The devil has a field day in suburbia. The main scene of the story (when it is not Manhattan Island) is in the countryside somewhere on the commuters' cocktail circuit near New York. Outwardly it is realistic down to the last croquet set. But it is also obviously named for Hecate, that three-headed goddess of black magic, nightmares and the underworld..." -- The New York Times "The stories thus rattle with tension...the unasked question these tales seem to answer is, What will happen to the Revolution? Or, since each story is a reminiscence from the 1930s back to the pre-Crash 1920s, Which legacy will endure, that of the Jazz Age or the Red Decade? Vanderbilt or Winthrop?" -- Rain Taxi
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2004-016635
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Dewey Edition
20
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