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000057597464 |
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AuCNLKIN |
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20161214120821.0 |
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151002s2016 enk e 000 1 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781408880852 (paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1408880857 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)951672667 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
NJB |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
e------ |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
813/.6 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fisher, M. F. K. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Mary Frances Kennedy), |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE |
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| Title |
The theoretical foot / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
M. F. K. Fisher ; edited by and with an afterword from Jane Vandenburgh. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
250 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"When her long-time agent and friend Robert Lescher died in 2012, the manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's unpublished first novel was discovered packed tidily away in one of Lescher's signature red boxes. Following on the success of Serve It Forth and written when she was in her early 30s, the novel employs Fisher's characteristic sharp-eyed wit to sketch themes so outre; they may have seemed too challenging for a proper woman of her time to attempt. Set in the late 1930s,The Theoretical Foot concerns two expat American couples in Europe, tramping from country to country without sanction of marriage, this during an era when cohabitation - to say nothing of a girl's hitchhiking! -- could ruin a respectable woman's reputation for all time. As fascism spreads and war inevitably approaches, the idyll of a beautiful life of love and freedom from convention is also threatened from within, as the man in one of the couples falls gravely ill with a rare circulatory disease. And indeed, Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher and Dillwyn Parrish had been forced to return to Depression-era California where she was struggling to support them with her writing. Parrish - like the character in the story -- was afflicted with Buerger's disease, for which there was only one effective painkiller, unavailable in the States. Faced with unrelieved agony and the threat of serial amputations, Parrish killed himself in August of 1941. Weeks later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the entire world was engulfed in war. Why this most autobiographical of stories was never published during Fisher's lifetime we cannot know but it may have been that it concerned itself not only with what was considered at that time to be a scandalous, licentious-seeming lifestyle but with a lost and beloved world, the European continent utterly transformed by war. And it may have been that her continued grief over her loss of the man she'd always later describe as her one great love made the book too painful for her to revisit"-- |
| 648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM |
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| Chronological term |
1918-1945 |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Voyages and travels. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 9 (RLIN) |
203 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Americans. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 9 (RLIN) |
12391 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Man-woman relationships. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3204 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Manners and customs. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Man-woman relationships |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Americans |
| Geographic subdivision |
Europe |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Voyages and travels |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
22839 |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Europe. |
| Source of heading or term |
fast |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Europe |
| General subdivision |
Social life and customs |
| Chronological subdivision |
1918-1945 |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Europe |
| General subdivision |
Social life and customs |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Fiction. |
| Source of term |
fast |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Autobiographical fiction |
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38 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Autobiographical fiction. |
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gsafd |
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38 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Autobiographical fiction. |
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gsafd |
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38 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Autobiographical fiction. |
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lcgft |
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38 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Autobiographical fiction. |
| Source of term |
gsafd |
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38 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Vandenburgh, Jane, |
| Relator term |
editor, |
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author of afterword. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
