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Book club edition. From the dustjacket: "This latest work from award winning playwright John Guare, author of House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation, addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity, with his trademark imagination... In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1885 New York, Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying [of throat cancer] and attempting to finish his memoirs, while he's cajoled and pestered by everyone from his wife and children to his publisher, Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), and via his drugged hallucinations, the Emperor and Empress of Japan. "121 pp. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. .ISBN # 0-7394-34519 

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