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Title
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Stories, Fables & Other Diversions
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Howard Nemerov
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Creator
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Nemerov, Howard
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:12:02Z
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2003-01
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1971
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:12:02Z
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Date Issued
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1971
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Abstract
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There are eleven short stories here. I have read three. Nemerov is better remembered as a poet, I believe, and these are apparently sallies into another form. It is a stretch of my imagination, at least, to call what I have read fables. The Twelve and the One reports on an eerie visit of twelve Jews from Trent to the Pope to confront him with Christian injustice. Nemerov's story suggests, I believe, how unjust Christians have been but also how difficult it is to set right a wrong done so long ago. One has only impotent words. The Executive offers an encounter between a supermarket manager and a somewhat incompetent worker. A berating of the latter by the former turns into an apotheosis, but the manager fires the worker a week later. There is something critical and even cynical in Nemerov's satire, I think. The Idea of a University is a salvo against the inhumanity of what universities have become. This university includes a model slum and a brainwashing center: all for research purposes, of course!
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Identifier
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7866 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Godine
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Boston, MA
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Subject
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PS3527.E5 S8 1971
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Howard Nemerov
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole