NY: Riverhead Books, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with cream boards, pale orange spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Purple end papers. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the book, ""Having spent her sheltered high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the l960's. Confronting its culture of drugs, sex and bohemianism, she felt like Alice down the rabbit hole, without recognizable signposts or directions. But it was also at Bennington that she discovered a great love of poetry, which carried her to New York City at a time when a new generation of poets was emerging and shaking up the establishment.. . . [This] is her memoir of that time and place - of her friendships and encounters with writers ... New York City ... nightspots ... taxicabs ... rooftops ... railroad apartments ...and of her own development as a poet ... and more...""

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Kathleen Norris is the award-winning, bestselling author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith ; The Cloister Walk ; and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography . Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker , in various anthologies, and in her own three volumes of poetry. She divides her time between South Dakota and Hawaii.

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Bookseller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000453
Title: The Virgin of Bennington
Author: [NORRIS] Norris, Kathleen
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 1573221791
ISBN 13: 9781573221795
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 2001
Keywords: Memoir, Biography, Kathleen Norris - Childhood and Youth, Kathleen Norris - Homes and haunts - New York City, New York City - Social life and customs - 20th Century, Bennington College - Alumni and alumnae - Biography, Poets, American - 20th Century - Bio
Bookseller catalogs: Sociology & Culture; Biography;

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