Jamie Is My Heart's Desire

Alfred Chester

earliest edition we have, 2007 David R. Godine, 2007 273 pages

Alfred Chester's masterpiece, The Exquisite Corpse, was one of the literary sensations of the 1960s, a surreal, homoerotic phantasmagoria that became a cult classic. It was preceded by this, his only other novel, out of print since the late 1950s, a work more straitlaced in literary form but just as shockingly original in content. It tells the story of a cynical Brooklyn undertaker, Harry, and the object of his affec...

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Jamie is my heart's desire edition · 2007 · David R. Godine · 273 pages · 9781567923056
Jamie Is My Heart's Desire paperback · 2007 · Black Sparrow Press · 273 pages · 9781574232066

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