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Black light : a novel / Galway Kinnnell ; afterword by Robert Hass.
- Title
- Black light : a novel / Galway Kinnnell ; afterword by Robert Hass.
- Author
- Kinnell, Galway, 1927-2014
- Publication
- Berkeley : Counterpoint Press, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3521.I582 B5 2015 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hass, Robert
- Description
- 140 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- "Black Light is a voyage of discovery and transformation. Set in Iran, it tells the story of Jamshid, a quiet simple carpet mender, who one day suddenly commits a murder and is forced to flee. With this violent act his old life ends and a strange new existence begins. Galway Kinnell combines his gift for precise imagery with a storyteller's skill in this journey across the Iranian desert-away from the fragile self-righteous virtues of adopted moral tradition, into the disorder and sexual confusion of agonizing self-knowledge. First published in 1966 by Houghton Mifflin, this extensively revised paperback edition of Black Light brings a distinguished novel back into print "--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781619025899 (softcover)
- 1619025892 (softcover)
- LCCN
- ^^2015023039
- OCLC
- 903763742
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library