Exile. Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai
| Title | Exile. Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai |
| Year for Search | 1979 |
| Authors | Nichols, Robert [Molise Boyer](1919-2010) |
| Date Published | 1979 |
| Publisher | New Directions |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1919-2010) |
| Full Text | 1979 Nichols, Robert [Molise Boyer] (1919-2010). Exile. Book IV of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai. New York: New Directions. 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. PSt 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. |
