Obscure Lit by Janet Lewis—"MASTERPIECE"—Larry McMurtry—"PERFECT"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A Vintage Hardcover Reissue of: • “The WIFE of MARTIN GUERRE”(Allan Swallow, Hardcover, 1967) • by JANET LEWIS • “A masterpiece…a short novel that can run with BILLY BUDD, THE SPOILS OF POYNTON, SEIZE THE DAY, or any other.” —LARRY McMURTRY, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS • “One of the most significant short novels in English…. I cannot think of another writer whose stature so far exceeds her public recognition.” —EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. • “FLAUBERTIAN in the elegance of its form and the gravity of its style.” —THE NEW YORKER • “One of (the short novel’s) most perfect examples.” —MICHAEL DIRDA, THE WASHINGTON POST • “There are many who will assure you that…in the category of dazzling American short fiction her WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE will be regarded as the 20th century’s BILLY BUDD and JANET LEWIS will be ranked with HERMAN MELVILLE.” —NEW YORK TIMES • “JANET LEWIS brings the haunting qualities of fable to this novella, based on a legal case that…has continued to fascinate down through the years.” — RON HANSEN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “LEWIS was new to me, and in the midst of enjoying the luxury of discovery, I was already envying those who haven’t yet read her…. It’s great to find a new literary hero.” —KAREN SOLIE, BRICK 98 • “I don’t know how many times over the years I’ve heard writers, making their lists of great neglected books of the twentieth century, begin talking with excitement about THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE…. She has, in that way, always gotten her due.” —ROBERT HAAS • “Seek it out—it is a gem. This slim volume (109 pages), based on an actual legal trial, is quietly and beautifully compelling.—HERSTORY NOVELS (BLOG) • “The excellence of [LEWIS’s] work results partly from the simple fact that she writes very well, hers being a style that combines clear speech with distinctive and personal inflection and perception.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual’s capacity to act within an inflexible system.” —KEVIN HAWORTH • “It is an austere and renunciatory work. It has no clever and yackety ‘voice.’ It is written in a plain, expository style—a style of great suppleness and beauty, but nevertheless a chill style—which does not belong to LEWIS but to an older tradition. Although she also wrote other novels of distinction…none rivals THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE. As do few other novels of the twentieth century.”—D.G. MYERS, A COMMONPLACE BLOG • “This plain tale plainly told in spare, lucid prose-precisely the kind of short fiction that is so easily overlooked and undervalued —works a subtle, special magic on the reader. Or it did on me—I think THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE will haunt me for a long, long time.”—NIGENESS (BLOG) • “LEWIS’ novels also have something in common with the analytical precision and stylistic economy of both A. S. BYATT and SHIRLEY HAZZARD, but they possess greater warmth than one associates with either of those younger authors. There is an evident love of her characters that gives LEWIS’ fiction the flavor of an older literary tradition, a timeless quality that even great writers don’t always achieve.”—PETER COATES, THE SECOND PASS (BLOG) • • For details, please see below. • TITLE: “THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE” SERIES: “THE HISTORICAL NOVELS OF JANET LEWIS” AUTHOR: JANET LEWIS TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 109 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: ALLAN SWALLOW (Denver), 1967 EDITION: 1967 Reissue No explicit edition data is given. In the front pages, there is a chronological listing of the different editions for this title which reveals that Alan Swallow first republished this title in 1950. The last edition listed is for: “Swallow Paperbooks edition, Third printing, 1966.” ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 1941 EDITION EMPHASIS: This copy is NOT Ex-Library NOR a BOMC edition. CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. Price ($2.00) is unclipped. Spine is slightly sunned. Big chunk of paper missing on top edge of back. Smaller chunks missing at top edge of front and bottom corner of front. Top & bottom of spine are chipped. Back & front are slightly smudged and tanned. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Boards are moderately clean with sharp but scuffed corners and scuffed bottom & top of spine. Text-block edges are lightly tanned & scratched. Endpapers are fine. Pages are faintly toned but also clean & bright with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no stains, no foxing, no tears, no foul odor (yes, we test-sniffed), etc. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy container. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. 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End Time: 2025-01-06T11:25:20.000Z

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