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Familiar Spirits by Alison Lurie

Familiar Spirits

A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson

By Alison Lurie

By Alison Lurie

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Feb 26, 2002 | ISBN 9780142000458

Familiar Spirits by Alison Lurie
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Feb 26, 2002 | ISBN 9780142000458

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About Familiar Spirits

Alison Lurie, one of America’s greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple’s deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem “The Changing Light at Sandover”, which Merrill called his “chronicles of love and loss.” Recalling Merrill and Jackson’s life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie’s signature wit.

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About Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie is the author of many highly praised novels, including The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Etranger), and Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Prize for fiction). She teaches writing, folklore, and literature at Cornell University.

Product Details

Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

Paperback | $15.00
Published by Penguin Books
Feb 26, 2002 | 192 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142000458

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Praise

“[A] remarkable and moving memoir.” —The Boston Globe

“Written with the poignancy of long affection.” —The Atlantic Monthly

“This memoir is Lurie’s own Ouija board, through which she shares one final, intimate conversation with her much-missed familiar spirits.” —The Washington Post

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