Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself

Name: Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself
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ISBN: 9781590172292

ISBN-10: 1590172299

ISBN-13: 9781590172292

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Montgomery Bird, Christopher Looby

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Robert Montgomery Bird, America's first internationally successful playwright, also wrote seven novels, includingNick of the Woods.Sheppard Lee, his most appealing work, is the story of a young idler who goes in search of buried treasure and finds instead the power to transfer his soul into other men's bodies. What follows is a picaresque journey through early American pursuits of happiness, as each body inhabited by Sheppard Lee reshapes his desires and makes him want more and more. When Lee's metempsychosis takes him into the marriage market, the money market, and the slave market, Bird's fable of American upward mobility takes a more sinister turn. Lee learns that everything in America,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.99" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English