- Mothers and sons, Novelists, Fiction, Authorship
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success.
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Contemporary, prestige, spare and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Percival L. Everett
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, University Press of New England, Hyperion
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571215881
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“My journal is a private affair, but I cannot know the time of my coming death, and since I am not disposed, however unfortunately, to the serious consideration of self-termination, I am afraid that others will see these pages.”
American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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