The book was typeset by computer and consumed "38 miles of computer tape". Burroughs Mitchell, The Chicago Tribune
Someone helpfully mentioned the volumes of Proust. I spoke of it to the manufacturing department, who looked grim. When the final great batch of typescript arrived, I looked with some apprehension at the number on the last page. Nevertheless, the full manuscript was something of a surprise when delivered in February 1964: Over the years, staff at Scribner's had read portions of the work-in-progress. Young had been encouraged by Maxwell Perkins, when she submitted a 40-page initial manuscript for the novel, then named Worm in the Wheat. Young has said that had she known it would have taken her so long she would never have started.
She worked on it daily, and did not finish until 1964. Young began writing the novel in 1945, expecting it would take two years. The novel is one of the longest ever written. 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."
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is a novel by Marguerite Young.
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