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First edition hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. From the collection of Andrew Salkey, a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin. Light shelf and handling wear, including tanning and minor creasing to DJ cover, edges, corners and folds. Spine cocked, otherwise boards in fine condition. Pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN
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"What he needed for his art had been supplied by his own person, by his mind, his wit."
Saul Bellow, from the Foreword"
"What he needed for his art had been supplied by his own person, by his mind, his wit."
--Saul Bellow, from the Foreword
"Recovery is a brilliantly written, masterful portrayal of man's battle with himself for survival."--Chicago Sun-Times
"What distinguishes Recovery from many fine and powerful fictions about alcoholism are the steps it takes into allegory and art."--Los Angeles Times
"The powerful statement of a man who was there and never came back."--Kirkus Reviews
"But if Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems."--The Independent
"Page after page, it displays humiliations and defeats. His novel, while written in prose, has the effect of a poem about the desolation of total selfpunishment. Sometimes, not even God and AA, acting in concert, can help with that."--National Post
About the Author
John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He spent much of his career at the University of Minnesota. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1964 for 77 Dream Songs and was the recipient of the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. He is the author of several books of poetry and the biography Stephen Crane. Berryman died in 1972 after jumping to his death from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis.
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) was an award-winning author whose works include The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, and Humboldt's Gifts. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
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RECOVERY: A Novel
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. With a six-page foreword by Saul Bellow. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Please note that there are some pencil linings and notes in the margins that could easily be erased if so wished. Some light foxing to the endpapers, otherwise pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £2.50 net. Edges slightly rubbed and creased. Small closed tear and associated creasing to the top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Corners and head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Colour to spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Edge of rear panel adjoining spine faded. Colours to front panel of dustwrapper bright. ***204 mm x136 mm. 254 pages. ***'In the author's words, Recovery is a novel about 'the disease called "alcoholism". Berryman started writing it in 1970, and had completed all but the final section of the first draft when he died in January 1972. Even unfinished, even without the benefit of the intensive revisions and improvements he applied to all his work, it is still an extra-ordinarily powerful document. ***The main setting of the book consists of the corridors, bedrooms and lecture rooms of an institution; the central character is Dr. Alan Severance, surrounded by a cross-section of American life, housewives, intellectuals, businessmen, and an 'extremely bitter bearded poet'; all suffer scenes of humiliation, self-delusion and self-confrontation. In Severance's repeated and heroic efforts to climb out of the pit can be found not only Berryman's unique wit and verbal wizardry, but also a testament to the courage and strength of the human spirit. ***In a brief foreword, Saul Bellow, who knew Berryman well, paints a portrait of him which brings him vividly and sharply to life.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition in its original dustwrapper. ***Of interest to collectors of John Berryman and twentieth century American fiction.***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 6636
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Advance Review Copy. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 254 pages 21 cm. Subjects; Alcoholics Rehabilitation ; Fiction. College teachers ; Fiction. Alcoholics ; Fiction. Fiction ; Rehabilitation. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 398727
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Advance Review Copy. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 254 pages 21 cm. Subjects; Alcoholics Rehabilitation ; Fiction. College teachers ; Fiction. Alcoholics ; Fiction. Fiction ; Rehabilitation. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 398727
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Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xiv, 254. First edition. Publisher's original illustrated black and orange dust jacket. Black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Loosely inserted 3 slips of notes by Alan Brownjohn (British poet) for a review - some on the reverse of the Faber review slip.ISBN: 0571102921 Good plus copy with mottling to top and tail edges with crease to top spine end and slight lean to boards. Very good minus dust jacket with faded spine and marks at verso. Seller Inventory # C70816
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