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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Black Sparrow Pr
Publication date
January 1, 2002
Pages
600
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Deluxe
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781574231793
ISBN-10
1574231790
Dimensions
2.25 by 6.25 by 2.25 in.
Weight
2.40 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$40.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: In a comic-picaresque epic that is one part Cervantes and two parts Brecht, Paul Goodman gives us the coming-of-age of Horatio, a sane man in an absurd world. Our endearingly optimistic hero resists his compulsory mis-education, does battle with the System, and scours post World War II Manhattan for an elective family of fellow-thinkers and, more important, fellow-feelers. It's a big book, but Horatio's is a big world, and his question the biggest a man can ask: "How does one live the right life?"
As Goodman once told Studs Terkel, "I might seem to have a number of divergent interests community planning, psychotherapy, education, politics but they are all one concern: how to make it possible to grow up as a human being into a culture without losing nature. I simply refuse to acknowledge that a sensible and honorable community does not exist."
As Goodman once told Studs Terkel, "I might seem to have a number of divergent interests community planning, psychotherapy, education, politics but they are all one concern: how to make it possible to grow up as a human being into a culture without losing nature. I simply refuse to acknowledge that a sensible and honorable community does not exist."
Editions
Hardcover
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Deluxe edition from Black Sparrow Pr (January 1, 2002)
9781574231793 | details & prices | 600 pages | 6.25 × 2.25 × 2.25 in. | 2.40 lbs | List price $40.00
About: In a comic-picaresque epic that is one part Cervantes and two parts Brecht, Paul Goodman gives us the coming-of-age of Horatio, a sane man in an absurd world.
About: In a comic-picaresque epic that is one part Cervantes and two parts Brecht, Paul Goodman gives us the coming-of-age of Horatio, a sane man in an absurd world.
With Taylor Stoehr (other contributor) |
from Black Sparrow Pr (January 1, 2002)
9781574231786 | details & prices | 600 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 2.00 in. | 2.35 lbs | List price $31.95
About: In a comic-picaresque epic that is one part Cervantes and two parts Brecht, Paul Goodman gives us the coming-of-age of Horatio, a sane man in an absurd world.
About: In a comic-picaresque epic that is one part Cervantes and two parts Brecht, Paul Goodman gives us the coming-of-age of Horatio, a sane man in an absurd world.
Paperback
With Taylor Stoehr (other contributor) |
from Black Sparrow Pr (January 1, 2002)
9781574231779 | details & prices | 600 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.75 in. | 2.00 lbs | List price $18.95
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