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One of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of the twentieth century, miss macintosh, my darling might be called the arabian nights of american life. Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. Miss macintosh, my darling by marguerite young, 1993, dalkey archive press edition, in english 1st dalkey archive ed. It has now found a patron in the dalkey archive press, that. When sixyearold clementine knight loses her mother to malaria during the. The prose is engulfing, endless, transcending, and illuminates with astounding accuracy even the most dimly lit corners of existence, reality, life and death. It is a picaresque, psychological novela novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. Theres a picture of young hugging the stack of manuscript pages, which looks to be about a. Marguerite young has 11 books on goodreads with 2980 ratings. This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. When marguerite young s novel miss macintosh, my darling, was published in 1965, it weighed in at 1,198 pages. She has described it as an exploration of the illusions, hallucinations, errors of judgment in.
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She has described it as an exploration of the illusions, hallucinations, errors of judgment in individual lives, the central scene of the novel being an opium addicts paradise. Editions of miss macintosh, my darling by marguerite young. Actress betty lou holland then reads of chapter 1 of miss macintosh, my darling. Miss macintosh, my darling wikipedia republished wiki 2. Books mentioned in this video miss macintosh my darling young earthly powersburgess. She is best known for her novel miss macintosh, my darling. Marguerite young 19081995 was a native of the midwest and an eccentric inhabitant of greenwich village. Radio series in 197677, charles ruas produced a series of. Something of virginia woolf and carson mccullers and elinor wylie is here, and something, too, of jamesian psychology, joycean puns, proustian longueurs.
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