The Married Land

First edition. Publisher's blue top stain to top edge of text block. Inscribed to Rochester professor Jarold Ramsey. Some chipping and shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket. Jacket blurb by William Carlos Williams. Tight, square binding.M r. Bell is a teacher, poet, and man of letters. This is his first published novel. In form and idea it is a highly unconventional and extremely personal achievement, yet antecedents are recognized in modern writing: primarily, Mr. Bell is a member of that school for which James Agee would be the most likely presiding spirit. There is no plot, as such, only a thin slice of time,- three weeks, invested with all possible significance, private and universal, in past events and future probabilities. It might be called ""a portrait of a marriage"", or ""a portrait of a land"".  430 pages.