# Familiar Spirits

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- Book: [Familiar Spirits](https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-lurie/familiar-spirits) ([Familiar Spirits.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-lurie/familiar-spirits.md))
- Authors: [Alison Lurie](https://www.bookquiver.com/alison-lurie)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4200-045-8
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2002-02-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill...