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The New American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature - ed.
Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, Paul Rosenfeld First Edition 1929 Containing Toomer's "York Beach".
"Jean visited Paul Rosenfeld in August of 1928 at York Beach.
There he began a novel that he first called 'Istil' and later 'York Beach'.
It was to be his 'novel of American life.
' Nathan Antrum, the protagonist, is a writer who has realized that his life consists of phases of apparent fulfillment and nonfulfillment, but both are necessary to push him toward something superior to life on earth.
Antrum was clearly based on Toomer himself, and the other major character was based on Rosenfeld.
" Tan cloth stamped in blue, pp.
[2], xii, 465, [1]; VG book, light soil to prelims and text block edges, small split to cloth at head of spine, in a poor jacket with the front panel detached at the front joint, tearing to flap joints, chipping to spine ends and fore-edge corners, the rear panel showing evidence of some old tape marks, light rubbing, toning, and foxing, still presenting quite nice in mylar.
[Kerman, C.
E.
, Eldridge, R.
The Lives of Jean Toomer A Hunger for Wholeness.
Louisiana State University Press, 1987]
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