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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beatrice
  name:
    name part: Dixon, Stephen
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 119 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: The most famous Beatrice in history is Dante's Beatrice, who appears in the Divine Comedy as the guide that must accompany Dante, after Virgil can travel with him no higher, through the upper reaches of Purgatory and into Heaven. Stephen Dixon's novel will make you think of her, because it seems as though Beatrice arrives in Dixon's book with a similar purpose even though, perhaps, she does not fulfill that purpose, or even though the main character prevents her from fulfilling that purpose by betraying the trust she has placed in him. Or even though she fulfills that purpose by introducing the circumstances through which the main character reduces himself to a state of further loneliness, which is where the real "blessedness" for this book will be, in the beatitude sense of the word" blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
  note: Stephen Dixon.
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Widowers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Retired teachers
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3554.I92 B43 2016
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780990602088
  identifier: 0990602087
  record info:
    record content source: BVT
    record creation date: 160701
    record change date: 20201123131408.0
    record identifier: in00003718010