marshall lenore g (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with some external soiling and light dampstaining, bottom corners bumped, old bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California)]. The first of several novels by this poet and political activist (1897-1971), about an idealistic young Connecticut wife who "feels that the very foundations of her world are shaken when she stumbles unwittingly upon an amorous liaison, now past and dead, which her husband confesses. [She] retreats from the truth, seeing in her daily companions, a group of intellectuals and Bohemians, only the same suffering she feels. Her life has lost its meaning, her love its reason for existence." All of this angst leads her to turn to a mutual friend of her and her husband's for counsel and empathy, which quickly evolves into a kind of "semi-affair." The above quotes are excerpted from a contemporary review of the book, which concludes that "as a pathological study of the feminine mind, stirred to its depths with disgust and fear, [the protagonist] will remain as an unusually strong example." Other critics were less charitable in their attitudes toward the lady's psychological sufferings, one commenting that "she uses her enviable position only to develop neuroses, to stifle screams and to teeter on the precipice of insanity. . She goes on beating her breast, panting, being hurt and bruised, and looking for life, for something to fill the void in her bleeding heart.".

Hardcover/Pappeinband. 313 Seiten Ecken/Kanten bestossen, Seiten gebräunt, fleckig, berieben,Schutzumschlag rissig, mittelmässig Sprache: Deutsch.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. Fine (covers nice; contents clean & tight); very minor wear & fade d/j. 8vo., embossed brown boards in dust jacket; 92 pages First Edition. Signed presentation from Marshall on the front endpaper, to American poet Denise Levertov: "For Denise Levertov- with admiration and good wishes- Lenore Marshall." Marshall was a founder in 1956 and life-long member of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In 1971, she helped to found and was codirector, with nuclear physicist Charles E. Goodell, of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, an organization committed to enhancing public awareness of the dangers of nuclear power. he Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, established in 1975 by The American Academy of Poets, awards a $25,000 prize in recognition of the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year. Denise Levertov was the second awardee of the Marshall Prize in 1977 for her book ?The Freeing Of The Dust.? Books signed by Marshall are uncommon. With Levertov's small embossed name and address label tipped to the bottom of the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed.