Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole - Hardcover

Nevils, Rene Pol; Hardy, Deborah George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807126802 ISBN 13: 9780807126806

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

In Ignatius Rising, Rene Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of John Kennedy Toole, a work based upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his mother, Thelma, as well as unpublished letters, documents, and photographs. Known variously as "Ken," "Tooley," and "John," Toole is revealed to have been many things: a coddled only child; an academic prodigy; a soul tortured by conflicting feelings for his mother and about his sexual identity; a fun-loving cut-up, a master of mimicry, and a conversationalist nonpareil; an impeccable, popular college teacher; a straitlaced constant worrier by day and a back-street blues devotee at night; a writer who cherished the many nuances of his native city, New Orleans; and a man ultimately depressed, overweight, hard-drinking, promiscuous, and mad.

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Rene Pol Nevils lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, Rick. Deborah George Hardy lives in Los Angeles with her husband, John, and their two children.

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• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807126802
• ISBN 13: 9780807126806
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
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