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An elegy for September
a novel
By Nichols, John Treadwell
- ISBN
- 978-0-80501-994-0
- Publisher
- New York : H. Holt, 1992.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1992
"Not to know the tragedy of your own life, is not to know the joy of being here at all.'' This quotation from Walter Lowenfels introduces this short novel and cuts directly to its essence. Nichols's ( The Sterile Cuckoo , The Milagro Beanfield War ) protagonist is a 51-year-old writer with a heart problem who, in the midst of a second divorce, finds himself enraptured with a 19-year-old student wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
