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  1. Apr 12, 2012 · Diary entries fancifully addressed to TV host Ellen DeGeneres serve as flashbacks to Lily’s teenage years, when she met her first love, Atlas Corrigan, a homeless boy she found squatting in a neighbor’s house. When Atlas turns up in Boston, now a successful chef, he begs Lily to leave Ryle.

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  2. Cozzens deals with diversity in religion, sexual preference, and race with what were considered tolerant, liberal viewpoints in the 1950s. The protagonist, Arthur Winner, makes a well-meaning effort to treat everyone with respect and fairness but his prejudices are still in evidence.

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  3. By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens in the middle 1950s. It was published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years.

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  4. By Love Possessed is, philosophically, an inversion, almost a parody of a kind of story Tolstoy and other 19th-century Russian novelists used to tell: of a successful, self-satisfied hero who is led by experiences in “extreme situations” to see how artificial his life has been and who then rejects the conventional world and either dies or ...

  5. Jan 26, 1998 · By Love Possessed. Paperback – January 26, 1998. by James Gould Cozzens (Author) 3.4 24 ratings. See all formats and editions. A highly-respected, middle-aged lawyer's involvements with love are revealed in a series of flashbacks. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length.

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  6. Mar 20, 2014 · Lorna Goodison, By Love Possessed: Stories. As the title suggests, this collection of short stories is loosely focused on the theme of love, but not just romantic love: there are stories of friendships, parent-child relationships, and love requited and unrequited (mostly the latter).

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