A personal matter
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Author
Contributions
- Nathan, John - Contributor
Publication
1969 - Tuttle Pub., Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
53,500 words, Guess
Page Count
214 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32132805M
- Internet Archivepersonalmatter0000oeke
- ISBN-104805306416
- ISBN-139784805306413
- OCLC Control Number213362738
Classifications
- DDC895.6/3/5
- LCCPL858.E14 K5513 1969
Description
"Bird, the protagonist of a Personal Matter, is a frustrated young intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. More than once when confronted with a problem, he has "cast himself adrift on a sea of whiskey like a besotted Robinson Crusoe", but he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his infant son. Should he keep the baby? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past rises up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of deceit."--Back cover.
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