{"product_id":"yesterdays-burdens-9780578677248","title":"Yesterday's Burdens","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert M. Coates | Mathilde Roza | Malcolm Cowley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Tough Poets Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Tough Poets Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Action \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1933 by The Macaulay Company, \u003cem\u003eYesterday's Burdens\u003c\/em\u003e is the second novel by Robert M. Coates, \"Lost Generation\" writer and long-time art critic at \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. Prior to publication, three chapters of the novel appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e under the title \"The Dada City\" (1930), and another chapter in \u003cem\u003eThe American Caravan, a Yearbook of American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (1931).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eYesterday's Burdens\u003c\/em\u003e was first resurrected in 1975 by the Southern Illinois University Press as part of their \"Lost American Fiction\" series, and included a new afterword by Malcolm Cowley. A paperback version of that edition was published the following year by the Popular Library. The novel has been out of print since. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eYesterday's Burden\u003c\/em\u003es contains Malcolm Cowley's afterword from the 1975 edition as well as a new introduction by Mathilde Roza, associate professor of American Literature and American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and author of \u003cem\u003eFollowing Strangers: The Life and Literary Works of Robert M. Coates\u003c\/em\u003e (University of South Carolina Press, 2011). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Coates composed the book like a collage, employing an experimental writing style that incorporated billboards, advertising slogans, and traffic signs to make immediate and vivid the perceptions and experiences of the characters. In \u003cem\u003eYesterday's Burdens\u003c\/em\u003e, Coates's 'Dada' spirit brings to life the cacophonous, visually chaotic and mentally demanding life of New York City.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Mathilde Roza \u0026amp; Jack Mearns, \"Collecting Robert M. Coates,\" \u003cem\u003eFirsts, The Book Collector's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, October 2007\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46418803851415,"sku":"9780578677248","price":1363.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780578677248.webp?v=1769072246","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/yesterdays-burdens-9780578677248","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}