Recovery
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. 254 pp. Janet Halverson, jacket illustrator. An unfinished novel about, according to the author, "the disease called 'alcoholism." The novel features a thinly disguised autobiographical character in the form of one Jasper Stone, "an extremely bitter bearded poet." Berryman began writing it in 1970 and had completed all but the final section of the first draft when he died in January of 1972. Introduction by Saul Bellow. Fine in Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Item #10272301
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