The Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)
by Cummings, E. E
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871401509
- ISBN 13
- 9780871401502
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Synopsis
In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room , his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved.
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JH000029
- Title
- The Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions)
- Author
- Cummings, E. E
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0871401509
- ISBN 13
- 9780871401502
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- January 1994
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