"Portrait of Jennie" by Robert Nathan



			Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan

Available as a trade paperback for $14.00,
and as a limited edition hardcover for $30.00.

Jacket design and illustration by Michael Dashow

Introductions by Peter S. Beagle and Sean Stewart
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The supernatural love story of a depression era artist and a young girl slipping through time, this spellbinding classic from 1940 is a masterpiece of modern fantasy.

Robert Nathan writes:

I have tried-as far as I could-to be a comforter in the world . . . not through what I know, but what I don't-and cannot-know. I have tried to suggest the mystery and the magic.


	Welcome back, Portrait of Jennie. It touched and frightened me when I was twenty-four. Now, once more, it touches and frightens. *- Ray Bradbury* Real magic realism from a time worse-and better-than most of us can imagine. Read this, and be enchanted. *- Gene Wolfe* I first read Robert Nathan's Portrait of Jennie as impressionable young man of sixteen or seventeen. It appealed to the naīve romantic in me. Reading it thirty-five years later, I note the clean simplicity of its prose, its economical evocations of character and setting, and its unflamboyant wisdom: "Yesterday is just as true as today; only we forget." Portrait of Jennie reminds us of that truth again. An almost perfect little book. *- Michael Bishop* There is a curious sweetness about this tragedy-a sweetness that comes from Robert Nathan's evocation of Jennie, a tender wise-innocent and muse. This story is a valentine. *-Maureen McHugh* [Nathan] deserves to be more widely read and more fully appreciated. *-St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers* . . . a significant creator of humanistic fantasy. *-John Clute* One of the most durable successes in the fantasy business . . . *-Judith Merrill* . . . a haunting story of love and art and time travel. *-Mythprint*


	Books by Robert Nathan Novels: Peter Kindred (1919) Autumnn (1921) The Puppet Master (1923) Jonah (1925) The Fiddler in Barly (1926) The Woodcutter's House (1927) The Bishop's Wife (1928) There is Another Heaven (1929) The Orchard (1931) One More Spring (1933) Road of Ages (1935) The Enchanted Voyage (1936) recommended Winter in April (1938) Journey of Tapiola (1939 Portrait of Jennie (1940) recommended They Went Together (1941) Tapiola's Brave Regiment (1941) The Sea-Gull Cry (1942) But Gently Day (1943) Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star (1947) Long After Summer (1948) The River Journey (1949) The Innocent Eve (1951) The Married Look (1951) The Train in the Meadow (1953) Sir Henry (1955) So Love Returns (1958) recommended The Rancho of the Little Loves (1956) The Color of the Evening (1960) Digging the Weans (1960) chapbook The Wilderness-Stone (1961) A Star in the Wind (1962) The Devil With Love (1963) The Fair (1964) The Mallott Diaries (1965) Stonecliff (1967) recommended Mia (1970) The Elixir (1971) The Summer Meadows (1973) Heaven and Hell and the Megas Factor (1975) Books for children: The Snowflake and the Starfish (1959) Tappy (1968) Non-fiction: The Concert (1940) Journal for Josephine (1943) a memoirr Poetry collections Youth Grows Old (1922) A Cedar Box (1929) Selected Poems (1935) A Winter Tide: Sonnets and Poems (1940) Dunkirk: A Ballad (1942) Morning in Iowa (1944) The Darkening Meadow (1945) The Green Leaf (1950) The Married Man (1962) Evening Song: Selected Poems 1950-1973 (1973)

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