Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey Contributor(s): Crowder, Ashby Bland (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807128872 ISBN-13: 9780807128879 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $42.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2004 Annotation: The life story of an iconoclastic southern novelist that illuminates the personal agonies that tormented him and fired his imagination. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2003018755 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies |
Physical Information: 1.46" H x 6.44" W x 9.18" (1.78 lbs) 403 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this deeply felt biography, Ashby Bland Crowder treats in near definitive fashion one of southern literature's unjustly neglected masters. In superb novels like Home from the Hill, The Ordways, and Proud Flesh as well as in the brilliant story collections The Last Husband and A Time and a Place, William Humphrey (1924--1997) created an imaginary East Texas Red River County, conjuring the speech and life rhythms of his native territory with artistic genius. |