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vi+178pp+ads. Preface by Maurice Girodias. A pornographic novel of the sexual revolution, running the gamut of sexual experiences: heterosexual, gay, and lesbian encounters, bestiality, incest, et al. Abrams was a poet, writing porn with a literary and literate bent: each chapter has an epigraph from Catullus, Yeats, Rimbaud, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc. The book launch for this was held at Ed Sanders' Peace Eye bookstore. First edition; reprinted in 1970, 1971, and 1973. Adapted into a film in 1970; the screenplay was by Josef Bush, aka Angelo D'Arcangelo. "The first (New York) Olympia novel to attract wide attention.an erotic portrait of the hippie generation" wrote Michael Perkins. John Sinclair wrote to Ed Sanders from his jail cell in 1969 requesting a copy of BARBARA, among other titles. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. Seller Inventory # 79241
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Title: BARBARA
Publisher: Olympia Press, New York
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st edition.
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