TY - ABST T1 - Exile. Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai Y1 - 1979 A1 - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This volume gives the history of Nghsi-Altai (29-39) and focuses on the "population lottery" which uses a lottery to reduce the population by choosing a family to exile. The family chosen is the family at the center of Book III. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1978 and 1979 Nichols, The Harditts of Sawna.

PB - New Directions CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Meaning of Festivals." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 26. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin. (New York: New Directions, 1973), 70-75; and "Nghsi-Altai: An excerpt from the novel Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai." New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 33. Ed. J[ames] Laughlin (New York: New Directions, 1976), 117-25.

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