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The heaven of Mercury : a novel / Brad Watson.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A8475 H43 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Brad, 1955-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Mississippi--Fiction.
- Mississippi.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Love stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]
- Summary:
- Having won and lost the woman he has loved since seeing her do a naked cartwheel in 1916, Finus Bates wonders if the colorful characters from their hometown hold the secrets to her elusive character.
- Contents:
- Finus ex Machina
- Cephalantus Accidentalis
- Self-Reliance
- Giddyup
- Aunt Vish
- Birdicus Urquhartimus
- The Dead Girl
- Finus Connubialis
- Negro Electric
- Discussion with the Dummy
- A Tree Spirit
- Woodpile
- Wisdom
- Blood
- Habeas Corpus
- Black Heart
- Finus Inquisitus
- Obits
- Her Remembrance of Awakened Birds
- Finus Querulous
- Finus Uxorious
- Saviors
- Selena in Ecstasy
- Finus Homerus
- Through the Mockingbird
- Finus Melonius (the Ratio of Love)
- Finus Impithicus
- Finus Magnificus
- A Pair of Boots
- Finus Resurrectus
- A Lost Paradise
- Grievous Oscar
- Finus Infinitus.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0393047571
- 9780393047578
- OCLC:
- 50288715
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