Name: A Sleep and a Forgetting
Brand: William Dean Howells

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Catalogue number

9780976658382

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Paperback

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Limited edition

Release date

2015-04-17

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Supplier US

Melvi­lle H­ouse

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Sales:8.875

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Artist

William Dean Howells

Genre US

Fiction

Label US

Melville House Books

Nowhere in the prodigious output of William Dean Howells is there an example more poignant of his heart-felt dedication to the realist movement than this achingly suspensfull novella.

The story centers on a young "alienist"—a psychologist—who meets a young woman who, at subsequent encounters, has no recollection of him. The doctor launches a psychological investigation that appears to be based upon the most painful memories of the author himself—Howells had recently experienced the loss of a beloved adult daughter (from what appears to have been anorexia) and the institutionalization of another for "emotional collapse."

The story's surprising ending reveals not only the author's deft sense of craftsmanship, but speaks movingly to his enduring faith in the sublime power of literature.

A Sleep and a Forgetting

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