Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads & Superstitions from All Across America compiled by Kemp P. Battle [1986 HARDCOVER] true detective Small library sticker on contents

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more brutal than The Burning Bed

It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts

No wonder the film version of Bunny Lake Is Missing was reset in swinging 1960s London

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads & Superstitions from All Across America compiled by Kemp P. Battle [1986 HARDCOVER] true detective Small library sticker on contentsGreat American Folklore Legends, Tales, Ballads and Superstitions from All Across America by Kemp P. Battle with illustrations by John M. Battle FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1986] DOUBLEDAY & CO. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Dust jacket has one sealed edge tear to upper rear; otherwise looks new. Book itself is mint and unread with some bumping to boards at edges of spine. Great American Folklore gathers together nearly three hundred