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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Hummi Crundi Part One / Nations, Opal L.., 1971

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Identifier: CC-05457-5561
Scope and Contents This book is printed on rice paper. It is a surrelistic novel with a single illustration.Opal Nations was born in Brighton, England. During the mid-sixties he worked as lead vocalist in London clubs with the late Alexis Korner's Band and later his own group, The Frays. He helped popularize American soul-based R & B and gospel music in Great Britain. It was through his efforts that black American gospel artists visited the country to perform in various major cities. He also became part of one of England's first integrated gospel groups, The Ram John Holder Group. With The Frays, and later as a soloist, he recorded for Decca Records in London. After brief periods with various London R&B bands, he turned his back on singing and began a career as an experimental fiction writer. His textual work, sometimes strange, sometimes humorous in nature, appeared in over 200 small press magazines around the world. Texts have been translated and published in French, German, and...
Dates: 1971

Nothing Personal: Heteroglossics / Troendle, Yves ; Tzara T ; Nations O ; McLuhan M., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32981-34601
Scope and Contents

Troendle's notes on the back inside cover indicate the sources of the prose and poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel / Nations, Opal L. ; Koch P ; Hoyt S., 1978

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Identifier: CC-32699-34285
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel / Nations, Opal L. ; Koch P ; Hoyt S., 1978

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Identifier: CC-38292-40188
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. Nations drew two small boxes next to his signature, one designated yes, the other no; the yes box is checked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978