Joe Gould's Teeth

by Jill Lepore

Book Overview

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101947586
• ISBN13: 9781101947586
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.8" x 7.5"