Miss MacIntosh, my darling

Marguerite Young

first published 1965 Dalkey Archive Press, 1993 1198 pages

A Harvest/HBJ book

Deals with a young girl's quest for reality and her eventual acceptance of the place of illusion in human existence. This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arab...

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Miss MacIntosh, my darling edition · 1993 · Dalkey Archive Press · 1198 pages
Miss MacIntosh, my darling edition · 1979 · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 1198 pages

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