A Ceremonial: Stories 1936-1940 (Collected Stories) - Softcover

Goodman, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087685353X ISBN 13: 9780876853535

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1978

Synopsis

These twenty-four stories some traditional and realistic, others experimental and "cubist" were written when Goodman was in his late twenties, a student at the University of Chicago living the life of a romantic artist-outsider. They reveal a rebel at odds with American institutions yet also homesick for his native New York, the pleasures of family, and the comforts of a strong moral order. When the title story was published in the New Directions annual, Klaus Mann commented that "the tone of this young American voice reminds me of certain venerable accents long-known and ever-loved the accents of Goethe's mellow wisdom," which is the wisdom of a youth capable of seeing himself from an adult's perspective.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 087685353X
• ISBN 13: 9780876853535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275
• Editor: Stoehr Taylor