| Conversations with John Gardner Contributor(s): Chavkin, Allan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0878054235 ISBN-13: 9780878054237 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1990 Annotation: Collections of interviews with notable modern writers |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | Interviews |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 89-27904 |
| Series: Literary Conversations |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.1" W x 9.16" (1.16 lbs) 342 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as "a major contemporary writer." After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, "brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness." |
Contributor Bio(s): Chavkin, Allan: - Allan Chavkin is editor of Conversations with John Gardner and coeditor (with Nancy Feyl Chavkin) of Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, both published by University Press of Mississippi. |