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Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Author: Samuel Beckett
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Retail Price: | $39.99 |
Betabooks Price | $31.99 |
ISBN: 9780571358052
Format: Hardback
Published: April 2020
Published By: Faber
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Published: April 2020
Published By: Faber
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'The chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts': the exuberant first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author.'The chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts': the exuberant first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author.Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final relapse into Dublin' (New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.