Books are not life but then what is? / 'Marvin Mudrick ; with an new introduction by Jervey Tervalon.

Author/creator Mudrick, Marvin
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGreat Barrington, Massachusetts : Berkshire Publishing Group, [2018]
Descriptionxii, 241 pages : 23 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents I. People: just like you and me -- The Emperor of China -- Su cosa mi cosa; or, Busy busy busy -- The offending member -- The entertainer -- I don't care what mama don't allow -- Pushkin in English -- The ugly duck -- Father knows best -- Portnoy's bachelor uncle -- Aged eagles and dirty old men -- Issues and answers: or, If you've tried it don't knock it -- The smell of martality -- II. Scholars: the soft recesses of uneasy minds -- The blind men and the elephant -- Stone-deaf theologians -- III. Operators: if they don't like it here why don't they go back where they came from? -- Adorable ideas and absent plenitudes -- Mad dogs and anglo shrinks -- A thrust in the hand is worth two in the bush -- IV. Books in bunches: the fox and the grapes -- Old pros with news from nowhere -- Fiction and truth -- V. Four ways of looking: books are not life but then what is? -- Chamber of horrors -- Good and proper (I) -- Good and proper (II) -- Mrs. Harris and the hend of all things.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Other edition issuedReproduction of (manifestation): Mudrick, Marvin. Books are not life but then what is? New York : Oxford University Press, 1979 0195025083
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016052056
ISBN9781614720270 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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