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Jamie is my heart's desire : a novel
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Jamie is my heart's desire : a novel

Author: Alfred Chester
Publisher: Boston : David R. Godine, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Black Sparrow Books edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
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Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971.
Jamie is my heart's desire.
Boston : David R. Godine, 2007
(OCoLC)607723638
Online version:
Chester, Alfred, 1928-1971.
Jamie is my heart's desire.
Boston : David R. Godine, 2007
(OCoLC)608104878
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alfred Chester
ISBN: 1574232061 9781574232066 1567922791 9781567922790 9781567923056 1567923054
OCLC Number: 70045872
Description: 273 p. : photograph ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: by Alfred Chester.

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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 affection, a beautiful and deceased young man named Jamie. But does Jamie really exist, or is he merely Harry's fantasy, the illusion that makes his life endurable? Harry's friends are divided on this matter, and Chester leaves it to his readers to decide.--From publisher description.

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