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Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780142000458)
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xAlison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.
Author: Alison Lurie
ISBN-10: 0142000450
ISBN-13: 9780142000458
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2002
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.08h x 5.52w x 0.52d
Author: Alison Lurie
ISBN-10: 0142000450
ISBN-13: 9780142000458
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2002
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.08h x 5.52w x 0.52d
By Alison Lurie
xAlison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels, including The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger), and Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Her most recent book was Familiar Spirits. She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University.
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