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ID
b309
Title
"The Black Magnolia."
Genre
Story
Page Count
37
Word Count
8300
Publication Year
1968
Document Types
Comic Fiction
Topics
Sex

A farce involving two voluptuous and liberated women and a repressed, tee-totaling bachelor.

The work shares with several other late stories a celebration of the sensual life ("A Party for the Girls" and "A Couple of Fools").

In The Wild Cherry Tree (1968).