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Notable American women : a novel / Ben Marcus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcus, Ben, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries original
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Emotions.
- Emotions--Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 243 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2002]
- Summary:
- On a midwestern farm, an unusual couple attempts a radical experiment in child rearing by raising a boy without feelings, who narrates his own story and views of the hidden world of women, until the arrival of Jane Dark, a woman whose fierce belief in silence turns the family upside down.
- Contents:
- Bury your head
- Ohio heartless
- Shushing the father
- Better reading through food
- Dates
- Name machine
- Technology of silence
- Failure to mate
- New female head
- Women's pantomime
- Names
- Planet Jane Dark
- Teachings of the female Jesus
- Promise of stillness
- Fainting project
- Launch.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- ISBN:
- 0375713786
- 9780375713781
- OCLC:
- 47650819
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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