Drawbridge Press: 7 books

Cover of Prologos
by Jonathan Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

Prologos is Jonathan Bayliss's sparkling, complex, experimental, playful, serious, richly detailed literary masterpiece of the 20th century whose protagonist, Michael Chapman, is the "author" or "controller" of the other three novels in Bayliss's GLOUCESTERMAN tetralogy. The foreground...
Cover of Gloucestertide
by Jonathan Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1996

Jonathan Bayliss's groundbreaking fiction - the tetralogy GLOUCESTERMAN - has been compared to the works of Sterne, Melville, Joyce, Broch, and Musil. Like the other GLOUCESTERMAN novels, Gloucestertide is inventive, good-humored, and thought-provoking. It explores Bayliss's wide-ranging interests...
Cover of Gloucesterbook
by Jonathan Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992

This complex and intellectually extensive novel is an anthropological discovery of the various personal and social dimensions that define an imaginative place on the East Coast, to which the West Coast protagonist adapts and subordinates his new life even as he assists several of their inhabitants...
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Gilgamesh Plays

The Tower of Gilgamesh and The Acts of Gilgamesh

by Jonathan Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

These dramatic works, The Tower of Gilgamesh and The Acts of Gilgamesh, take place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), where it is said that civilization began: the first writing, numbering, and accounting systems, the first literature, and, for better or worse, the Tower of Babel. Loosely...
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Journal

Passages in a Turbulent Life

by Lois Henderson Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

This intimate record - written by a gifted story-teller in spurts from 1931 to 1974 - provides glimpses into a girlhood in pre-World War I Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Pigeon Cove summer colony on Cape Ann as well as experiences as a young woman in the Roaring Twenties in New York City. Bayliss’s...
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Democratic Oak Tree

Messages for My Party

by Jonathan Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

A collection of political essays and correspondence by the writer Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) addressing crucial questions in American politics, including: why political parties matter, why citizens should register and vote as Democrats, what the Republican Party really wants, and what Democrats...
Cover of Gloucestermas
by Jonathan Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

Gloucestermas is the culmination of Jonathan Bayliss’s masterwork, GLOUCESTERMAN, a tetralogy reviewers have compared to the fiction of Sterne, Melville, Joyce, Broch, and Musil. Like Gloucesterbook and Gloucestertide, this richly detailed, playful, and expansive novel is centered on the Atlantic...
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