{"product_id":"the-diblos-notebook","title":"The (Diblos) Notebook","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe (Diblos) Notebook\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJames Merrill\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781564780645\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDalkey Archive Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1994\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint, Subsequent\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eBest known as a poet, James Merrill is also an accomplished novelist, and in The (Diblos) Notebook artfully lays bare the process of writing a novel. A young American writer keeps a notebook that records at one and the same time a series of events on the Greek island of Diblos in which he is deeply involved, and his attempts to transform these events into a novel. Everything that might be found in such a notebook is used here with great cunning: the false starts that end in the middle of a thought; the endless revisions, canceled out in the search for the right word or phrase; the many approaches and backtrackings as the writer seeks an entrance to the materials through several possible doors; the musings on how the material is to be treated; and the wrestlings with the problem of appearance and assumed reality. The author has written an afterword for this new edition of his 1965 novel.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"The (Diblos) Notebook | James Merrill | Paperback | 9781564780645 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1638155","offer_id":48319006671000,"sku":"1638155","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/4168H0JM7RL.jpg?v=1773173162","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-diblos-notebook","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}