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Yesterday's Burdens (Lost American Fiction)
Yesterday's Burdens - Lost American Fiction
Author: Robert M. Coates
A memorable period piece, remarkable for its vivid language and thematic structure, Yesterday?s Burdens is an obsessive Story of New York life in the 1930s. —   — Malcolm Cowley, a close personal friend of Robert Coates, has pointed out in his Afterword to this new edition the aptness of this novel to its time. Yesterday?s Bur­den...  more »is an informal story of an unconven­tional young man of the 1930s. The cen­tral character, Henderson, typifies the successful young New Yorker, whose life style reflects the restless, seeking, discon­tented mood of his time. With him, the reader crisscrosses Manhattan, visits speak­easies, crashes parties, and participates in Henderson?s sexual activities and his pos­sible suicide (the novel has three end­ings).

 

Frankly experimental in technique, the novel attempts the universal in its ap­peal. Readers today no doubt will appre­ciate the unexpected tenderness and pas­sion with which the author endows his very ordinary characters.
ISBN-13: 9780809307173
ISBN-10: 0809307170
Publication Date: 3/1/1975
Pages: 280
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Book Type: Hardcover
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