Gentle Spirits by Thomas Ford Conlan

Book cover for "Gentle Spirits" by Thomas Ford Conlan. Features a rugged, reddish-brown mountain under a partly cloudy sky with a visible moon. The title and author's name are in bold black letters.

Review by Mack Hassler                                                     “…the novel is reflecting upon its own nature” Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method, 1963 Gentle Spirits, this first book-length offering by Conlan, a retired shipmaster and poet, is not exactly an “Anti-Novel” in the tradition that Sartre describes above.  It does not use the…

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