A sad heart at the supermarket : essays & fables / Randall Jarrell
1965, First Edition. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode. Fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #454569
Physical description; 234 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; The intellectual in America -- The taste of the age -- The schools of yesteryear -- A sad heart at the supermarket -- Poets, critics, and readers -- On preparing to read Kipling -- Stories -- The woman at the Washington Zoo -- Malraux and the statues at Bamberg -- Six Russian short novels : an introduction -- Robert Frost's Home burial. Subjects; Criticism. Culture. American essays -- 20th century. Poetry -- History and criticism. Popular culture -- United States.
Price: €60.00