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''Miss MacIntosh, My Darling'' is a novel by Marguerite Young. She has described it as "an exploration of the illusions, hallucinations, errors of judgment in individual lives, the central scene of the novel being an opium addict's paradise."〔''World Authors 1950-1970''〕 The novel is 11th on the ''Wikipedia'' List of longest novels, and 5th among novels written in English. ==Writing the novel== Young began writing the novel in 1947, expecting it would take two years. She worked on it daily, and did not finish until 1964.〔〔Cover photograph information, Dalkey Archive press edition, 2nd volume says 1963. The photograph is of Young with the completed manuscript.〕 Young has said that had she known it would have taken her so long she would never have started.〔Interview, "The Art of Fiction No. 66", ''The Paris Review'', Fall 1977, no. 71.〕 Young had been encouraged by Maxwell Perkins, when she submitted a 40-page initial manuscript for the novel, then named ''Worm in the Wheat''. Over the years, staff at Scribner's had read portions of the work-in-progress. Nevertheless, the full manuscript was something of a surprise when delivered in February 1964: The book was typeset by computer, and consumed "38 miles of computer tape".〔 According to the dust jacket, In a 1993 interview, Young confirmed the story.〔 The interviewer mistakenly remembered the dust jacket as saying the incident happened in Rome, and Young corrected the location back to the Gare Lazare in Paris.〕 In the same interview, Young also stated the Miss MacIntosh was her only invented character in the novel—the rest had all been based on real people—and that she had thought What Cheer, Iowa was a fictional name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miss MacIntosh, My Darling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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