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Back in print after an absence of nearly 70 years, the facsimile edition of E. C. Large's novel Asleep in the Afternoon is what we now call a "mash-up," made up of scientific research, social satire, and fictional flights of fancy.Sugar in the Air concludes with the novel's central character—unmistakably modeled on the author—receiving his pension and beginning work on a novel called Asleep in the Afternoon, which was the title of the novel E. C. Large wrote in 1939. This meta-fictional satire tells parallel stories about one woman's belief in sleep as a cure for society's ills and her advocacy for a mysterious new device that can induce it. The alternating tale concerns this fictional author's writing process and family life.
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E.C. Large (1902-76) was (in chronological order) an industrial chemist, writer, and plant scientist, best known for his book The Advance of the Fungi (1940): a magisterial popular history of plant diseases. The novels Sugar in the Air and Asleep in the A
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- PublisherArno Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0405109911
- ISBN 13 9780405109911
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages351
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ASLEEP IN THE AFTERNOON: A NOVEL
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Arno Press, New York
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ISBN 10: 0405109911
ISBN 13: 9780405109911
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Book Description Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1939 Henry Holt and Company. Published earlier in Britain by Jonathan Cape in 1938. "A devastating attack on the imaginative blindness of the English bourgeoisie." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-59. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 691. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 133. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 260. Bleiler (1978), p. 119. Reginald 08625. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#149831). Seller Inventory # 149831
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