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Memoirs of Hecate County
By Edmund Wilson
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780374986568
 
Large print edition from Isis Large Print Books (August 1, 1990)
9781852900205 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $22.95
from Octagon Books (June 1, 1959)
9780374986568 | details & prices | List price $34.00
Paperback
Book cover for 9780374524326 Book cover for 9780879233150 Book cover for 9781590170939
 
With Louis Menand (other contributor) | from New York Review of Books (May 1, 2004)
9781590170939 | details & prices | 447 pages | 4.75 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $22.95
About: The long-suppressed memoir of sexual fantasy in a small town explores the quiet suburban world where sexual desire is in the air, focusing on the humorous story of a man caught up in several love affairs at once.
Reprint edition from Noonday Pr (April 30, 1995); titled "The Memoirs of Hecate County"
9780374524326 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $30.00
About: A favorite among his own books, Edmund Wilson's erotic and devestating portrait of the upper middle class still holds up today as a corrosive indictment of the adultery and intellectual posturing that lie at the heart of suburban America.
from David R Godine Pub (July 1, 1980)
9780879233150 | details & prices | List price $7.95
About: A writer recalls the stories of friends, acquaintances, and lovers he knew during his youth, and the county, whose landscape still haunts him