Sleepers Awake

PATCHEN, Kenneth

Published by Padell Book Company, New York, 1946

About this Item

Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen; hardcover in 2 part dustjacket Published by Padell Book Company, 1946. Sleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen's major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as "novelistic fantasy"--a pioneering new direction in fiction which created its own protean form as it was written. Patchen mingled narrative with dream visions, surrealism with satire, poetry with statements of principle, and explored the then almost uncharted territory of visual word structures twenty years before "Concrete Poetry" became a popular international movement. Sleepers Awake is a rallying cry to young and old, as Patchen advances his long struggle against inhumanity, oppression, war and hypocrisy. Now brutal, now lyrical, he gives us life and the world as we must take them if they are to have full meaning, the horror and the beauty, the joy and the suffering together. "jacket in 2 solid parts, hardcover corner stub, a little edge rubbing,clean and tight".

Seller Inventory # LOWPL2-11

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sleepers Awake
• Publisher: Padell Book Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1946
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
• Dimensions: 6.25W x 9.25H x 1.5D inches 6.25 inches width by 9.25 inches height by 1.5 inches depth
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature- classics