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Genoa : a telling of wonders / Paul Metcalf.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.E83 G4 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metcalf, Paul C.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- This remarkable novel is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to Herman Melville (his great-grandfather).
- "Melville was the monkey on my back... and I could never come to terms with myself until relieved of him....I have written a wicked book".
- Notes:
- Originally published: Penland, N.C. : Jargon Society, 1965.
- ISBN:
- 0826313000
- OCLC:
- 24143600
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