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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised and Expanded Edition
William Gaddis
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised and Expanded Edition
William Gaddis
A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life.
Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930, when Gaddis was at boarding school, and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography and are all the more valuable because he was not an autobiographical writer. Here we see him forging his first novel, The Recognitions, while living in Mexico; fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica; and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award-winning J R amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic; then teaches himself enough about the law to indite A Frolic of His Own, which earned him another National Book Award. Returning to a topic he first wrote about in the 1940s, he finishes his last novel, Agap? Agape, as he is dying.
600 pages
Medie | Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) |
Udgivet | 4. april 2023 |
ISBN13 | 9781681375830 |
Forlag | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
Antal sider | 688 |
Mål | 215 × 141 × 40 mm · 828 g |
Sprog | Engelsk |
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