{"product_id":"9781458704528","title":"Bertram Cope's Year","description":"In 1919, when he was sixty-two, Henry Blake Fuller published \u003ci\u003eBertram Cope's Year.\u003c\/i\u003e  This audacious book with several homosexual characters revolves around a young English instructor in a middle western university town patterned on Evanston, Illinois.  Rejected by every New York publisher, Fuller self-published and the book received scant notice or unintelligent reviews.  Discouraged, Fuller burned the original manuscript.  It took ten years before he ventured to publish another novel.\u003cbr\u003e James Huneker, Fuller's contemporary, loved \u003ci\u003eBertram Cope's Year.\u003c\/i\u003e  He read it three times and wrote to Fuller, \"Its portraiture and psychological storkes fill me with envy and joy... you are the implacable Stendhal of the lake!\" \u003cbr\u003e  Fifty years later, critic Edmund Wilson, in a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e article on Henry Blake Funner entitled \"The Art of Making It Flat,\" called \u003ci\u003eBertram Cope's Year\u003c\/i\u003e Fuller's best book.  He wrote, \"It has a philosophic theme ... which raises it well above the fiction of social surfaces of the school of William Dean Howells.\" \u003cbr\u003eThis Turtle Point Press edition is the first republication of \u003ci\u003eBertram Cope's Year\u003c\/i\u003e since 1919.","brand":"ReadHowYouWant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140877828336,"sku":"9781458704528","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781458704528_p0.jpg?v=1763860930","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781458704528","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}