What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler (to read list .txt) 📕

when represented in fiction (and especially poignantly in the poet’s confessional novel), becomes, at its most optimistic, the scenario of which What’s for Dinner? is a keen example. “Their neurotic sufferings ameliorated, they lived ordinarily unhappily ever after.” Ought to be enough for anybody.

—JAMES McCOURT

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Copyright © 1978 by James Schuyler

Afterword copyright © 2006 by James McCourt

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First published by Black Sparrow Press, 1978

Cover painting: Darragh Park

Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Schuyler, James.

 What’s for dinner? / by James Schuyler; afterword by James McCourt.

p. cm.—(New York Review Books classics)

 ISBN 1-59017-167-5 (alk. paper)

 I. McCourt, James, 1941- II. Title. III. Series.

 PS3569.C56W47 2005

 811’.54—dc22

2005013037

eISBN 978-1-59017-435-7

v1.0

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