Foreign devils
a novel.
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Word Count
73,750 words, Guess
Page Count
295 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5312967M
- ISBN-100877950563
- OCLC Control Number622180
- OCLC Control Numberforeigndevilsnov0000faus
- Library of Congress Control Number72097685
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- Goodreads2786471
- LibraryThing1937680
Classifications
- DDC813/.5/4
- LCCPZ4.F267 Fo3
- LCCPS3556.A97 Fo3
Description
[This novel] begins as a first-person narrative ... of [one of] Faust{u2019}s inspired madmen -- Sidney Benson (born Birnbaum), who imagines himself a war reporter named Norris Blake covering the Boxer rebellion in China at he turn of he century. This fantasy is mixed with another of Birnbaum as a jazz musician playing with Benny Goodman in the late thirties. From time to time intrudes present mundane reality, as we learn that he is separated from his wife and currently working as a teacher at Washington Irving High School. (In the background are the May 1968 riots around Columbia University.) The novel concludes with the cinematic image of Birnbaum's wife running toward him, but this too might be illusory. --Richard Kostelanetz at www.richardkostelanetz.com.
Subjects
Other Editions
- Foreign devils: a novel.
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