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The Gift

by Lewis Hyde
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Overview

Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.

About the Author, Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde was born in Boston in 1945 and studied at both Minnesota and Iowa universities. His hugely acclaimed essay, "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking," in part sprang out of his experiences as an alcoholism counselor, but he is also a highly regarded poet in his own right whose poetry and essays have been widely published. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a former director of creative writing at Harvard and, alongside The Gift, he is the author of the equally acclaimed Trickster Makes This World. He lives in Ohio, where he is completing a third book.

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Book Details

Published
August 9, 1988
Publisher
New York : Vintage Books, c1983.
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780394715193

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