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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F Doyle
Author: Doyle, Brian
Title: The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World :
Remainder of title: a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
Summary, etc. note: "The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. But now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay. An adventure tale, an elegy to one of the greatest writers of our language, a time-traveling plunge into The City by the Bay during its own energetic youth, The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World is entertaining, poignant, and sensual"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781250100528 (hardback)
International Standard Book Number: 9781250100535 (e-book)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us-ca
Classification number: PS3604.O9547
Item number: A63 2017
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.6
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC019000
Classification number: FIC014000
Classification number: FIC041000
Dates associated with a name: 1956 November 6-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Brian Doyle.
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.
Name of publisher: St. Marrtin's Press
Date of publication: 2017
Projected publication date: 1703
: New York :
: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press,
: 2017.
Extent: ix; 227 pages 23 cm.
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: Gift of Carol Jaegur
Purchase price: $25.99
Personal name: Stevenson, Robert Louis,
Dates associated with a name: 1850-1894
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: Authors
Subject: FICTION / Literary.
Subject: FICTION / Historical.
Subject: FICTION / Biographical.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Geographic name: San Francisco (Calif.)
Form subdivision: Fiction.
General subdivision: Social life and customs
Chronological subdivision: 19th century
Source of term: gsafd
Source of term: gsafd
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Biographical fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Adventure fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Historical fiction.
: Acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xk07 2016-10-28
: xk15 2016-11-04 (telework) to CIP
: xk07 2016-10-28 ONIX (telework) on hold
: Chrisinda Lynch; phone: 646-307-5214; email: chrisinda.lynch@stmartins.com; bc: chrisinda.lynch@stmartins.com

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