The Land of Lost Content

Phillips, Robert

ISBN 10: 0814906745 / ISBN 13: 9780814906743

Published by The Vanguard Press, NY, 1967

About this Item

First printing of this collection of short stories. Nicely inscribed (To ---- Who writes good, too. With avuncular good wishes) and SIGNED (Bob Phillips) and dated 11-2-70. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 124).

Seller Inventory # 013237

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Land of Lost Content
• Publisher: The Vanguard Press, NY
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814906745
• ISBN 13: 9780814906743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books

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Synopsis

“The Land of Lost Content” reveals a new young writer of keen apperception. In his first collection of short stories, several of which have appeared in various literary magazines, Robert Phillips carves out his place – Public Landing, Delaware, and his theme: loss. Here is loss of illusion, lost childhood, lost identity, even loss of the rural scene. Behind Public Landing’s peeling façade lie the terror, the quiet and not-so-quiet tragedies, the ironic twists in the lives of its people. Within the trivia of their everyday existences, Mr. Phillips finds the nettle and, with a palpably strong sense of drama and sharp clarity, exposes it. Mr. Phillips is, indeed, a story teller.