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Describes the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Beavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, who achieves literary fame as a college student and does penance in the form of manual labor.
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Prestige, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, Black Spring P., P.A. Norstedt
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- English, German, Swedish, French
- ISBN
- 9780141003801
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