An Orderly Life

New York: Pantheon, 1968.

Price: $85.00

Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small internal repair. Inscribed by the author to an editor at *The New Yorker*, Rachel MacKenzie: "For Rachel from Jose on May Day. 5-1-69." With MacKenzie's ownership signature. Rachel MacKenzie replaced Katherine White as the fiction editor at *The New Yorker*, on the latter's retirement, on the recommendation of May Sarton. During her tenure at the magazine MacKenzie was noted for her nurturing and editing of, among others, Sarton, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and especially Isaac Bashevis Singer. MacKenzie's enthusiasm led to the magazine devoting an entire issue to Spark's *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*. However, the magazine wouldn't publish *Goodbye, Columbus* as she recommended because William Shawn was too squeamish over the more "frank" aspects of the novella.

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Item #297363 An Orderly Life. Jose YGLESIAS.
An Orderly Life
An Orderly Life