"Laying sure hands on the daily is Wright Morris's forte. What the rest of us may have accepted too casually he sets upon with his own highly specialized focus. In this novel, more than ever, the texture of the day and hour, the fabric of speech, the pattern of action are used to show forth the humor of objects, people, places, lives, and in their deeper, more mysterious interrelations is disclosed the larger shape of tragedy."--Eudora Welty Friday, November 22, 1963, in Escondido, California, begins with the discovery of ...
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"Laying sure hands on the daily is Wright Morris's forte. What the rest of us may have accepted too casually he sets upon with his own highly specialized focus. In this novel, more than ever, the texture of the day and hour, the fabric of speech, the pattern of action are used to show forth the humor of objects, people, places, lives, and in their deeper, more mysterious interrelations is disclosed the larger shape of tragedy."--Eudora Welty Friday, November 22, 1963, in Escondido, California, begins with the discovery of an infant in the adoption basket at the local animal pound. This calculated effort to shock the natives is silenced by the news from Dallas of an event calculated to shock the world. One Day is concerned with the way these two events are related and with the time that begins when conventional time seems to have stopped. The events of this day, both comical and horrifying, make the commonplace seem strange, and the strange familiar. To accommodate the present, the past must be reshuffled, and events accounted for defy accounting. One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision , which won the National Book Award.
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Add this copy of One Day to cart. $14.19, good condition, Sold by Coas Books, Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Las Cruces, NM, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by University of Nebraska Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. New York: Atheneum, 1965. Stated first edition. Square and unmarked hardcover in full cloth binding, shelf rubbed. 433pp. Unclipped jacket is moderately rubbed, offered now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
Add this copy of One Day to cart. $27.00, very good condition, Sold by The Bookman rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from orange, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Atheneum.
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Very Good. First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. Light pen marks on the Books by Wright Morris page at the front of the book. In protective mylar cover. (Abandoned Children, John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Fiction)
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NEAR FINE IN VERY GOOD+ D.J. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN VERY SLIGHT COLOR-FADE TO THE SPINE. D.J. HAS A TOUCH OF CORNER WEAR WITH A 1/4" CHIP AT THE TOP OF THE MODESTLY SUNNED SPINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
Add this copy of One Day to cart. $37.18, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 1976 by University of Nebraska Press.
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8vo. Coarse green cloth, dust jacket. 433pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight and quite attractive first edition of this fiction "being the Friday in November the word from Dallas was heard in Escondido."
Add this copy of One Day to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published by New York: Atheneum, 1965.
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8vo. 433 pp. Very good, Brown Cloth, Dust Jacket with small tears, creases, minor sun-fading, rubbing & edge wear; FEP top corner cut; shelf wear. First Edition.
