Weldon Kees (294 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. William Clay, a naive English instructor, arrives at a small midwestern college to take up his first full-time teaching assignmemt, and falls in love with Dorothy Bruce, a radio singer Foxing is present on one or more pages. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, journalist, musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in New York City. Despite a contract for a forthcoming novel, however, he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco, and worked as an artist and filmmaker. On July 18, 1955, his car was found on the Golden Gate Bridge, and he has not been seen since. These stories by Kees, predominantly set in Depression-era mid-America, feature bleak, realistic settings and characters resigned to their meager lives. The owner of an auto parts store occasionally "sells" his sister Betty Lou to interested patrons; a cryptic message in library books indicates the yearnings of a silenced patron; a young woman taking tickets at the Roseland Gardens futilely dreams of escape from the future she sees for herself; and an old man carefully saves his money to fulfill the requirements of a chain letter only to be disappointed by a spiteful daughter-in-law. Many of these stories are set in the Nebraska of Kees's youth, and they are written from a Midwestern sensibility: keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly fantastic.In this new edition, Dana Gioia has added three stories to the fourteen gathered in the first edition, The Ceremony and Other Stories. The New York Times named that first edition, published in 1984, a notable book of the year.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. 3 Entertainments: Works for Film and Television. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third Edition). Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Third Edition. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Brownsville. 1990. Story Line Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0934257434. 244 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Literature. DESCRIPTION - Only surviving novel by poet, painter and composer, written in late 1930s and never before published. A satire of academia that finds a young professor struggling to find his place in a small Midwestern university. inventory #25223.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 174 page paperback - collection of short stories (17), plus a checklist of Kees published short stories - all edited and with an introduction by Dana Gioia. Unmarked, tight and clean.

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