Springer's Progress

Markson, David (inscribed0

ISBN 10: 0030203414 / ISBN 13: 9780030203411

Published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1977

About this Item

Hardcover in Very Good condition in a very good dust jacket, 8vo. Black paper-covered boards with embossed author's initials, black cloth shelf-back with titles in gold. Inscribed by Markson on front free end-paper. Bookseller accession no.: XP600. From the jacket blurb, " 'Springer's Progress' is that rarest of gifts, a mature love story. It is also an exuberant linguistic romp, a novel saturated with irrepressible wordplay and outrageous literary thieveries.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Springer's Progress
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030203414
• ISBN 13: 9780030203411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Here comes Lucien Springer. forty-seven. Still handsome though muchly vodka'd novelist, currently abashed by acute creative dysfunction. Sole preoccupation amid these artistic pursuit of fair women. Springer is a randy incorrigible who is guided by only one inflexible no protracted affairs. And thus he has slyly sustained eighteen years of marriage Enter, then, Jessica Cornford. almost half of Lucien's. Lush of body and roguish of mind. Whereupon what begins as bawdy interlude becomes perhaps the most untidy extramarital letch in literature. Rabelaisian yet uncannily wise, both ribald and bittersweet, Springer's Progress is that rarest of gifts, a mature love story. It is an also exuberant linguistic romp, a novel saturated with irrepressible wordplay and outrageous literary thieveries. Contemplating his own work, Lucien Springer modestly restricts his ambition to "a phrase or three worth some lonely pretty girl's midnight underlining." For the discerning reader, David Markson has contrived a hundred of them.

About the Author

David Markson's novel Wittgenstein's Mistress was acclaimed by David Foster Wallace as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country." His other novels, including Reader's Block, Springer's Progress, and Vanishing Point, have expanded this high reputation. His novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee was made into the film Dirty Dingus Magee, which starred Frank Sinatra, and he is also the author of three crime novels. Born in Albany, New York, he has long lived in New York City.