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Material Type: | Fiction |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wright Morris; Charles Baxter; University of Nebraska Press. |
ISBN: | 0803282672 9780803282674 |
OCLC Number: | 958194434 |
Notes: | Na dok. data: 2000 - first Bison Books print., data wyd [post 2006] na podst. 13-cyfrowego ISBN. Na dok.: Bison Books. |
Awards: | Winner of National Book Awards (Fiction (Hardcover)) 1981 |
Description: | XV, [3], 229 s. ; 22 cm. |
Responsibility: | Wright Morris ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Charles Baxter. |
Reviews
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"Wright Morris knows the embattled regions within his people as well as the harshly beautiful landscapes that surround them."-New Republic * New Republic * "This is a beautiful, subtle novel that accomplishes the rare effect of presenting history from the inside out. . . . As the title suggests, this is a melody without accompaniment, music of the simplest and most beautiful kind. Perhaps it is because Morris sketches his characters so sparingly that they seem so indelible. They are such a real presence that it's hard to think they haven't actually lived."-Christian Science Monitor * Christian Science Monitor * "Nowhere in [Morris's] fiction does emotion emerge from detail so beautifully as in this precise and vivid book. . . . The triumph of the book, in terms of craft, is that we experience the sense of the slow passage of time so necessary to such a story. . . . The heart of the book is its tactful rendering of the emotional history of several women. . . . Precise, satisfying, and complete."-New York Times Book Review * New York Times Book Review * Read more...

