Katherine Anne Porter: A Life (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

Givner, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820313408 ISBN 13: 9780820313405

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1991

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Book by Givner Joan

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The reflection Joan Givner's book chiefly prompts is wonder at the way in which such a disordered, tempestuous, hard-drinking, often frustrated life produced so assured and serene an art. --Times Literary Supplement Long before her death in 1980, Porter had earned the reputation of being a fine, though maddeningly slow, writer and the greatest female liar of the century. . . . Givner's admirable biography weaves together the facts of Porter's deliberately extravagant, sometimes sordid life. --Atlantic Monthly This is the story of how a renowned American writer made up a grand old-South lineage for herself and otherwise mythologized her life. . . . In this new edition, the author has uncovered more details about such matters as her subject's bout with tuberculosis, which she now regards as 'crucial to the emergence of Porter as an artist.' --Washington Post It remains the only definitive work on Porter's life, and I cannot imagine any Porter scholar nowadays who does not consult it routinely. --Darlene Harbour Unrue There were a multiplicity of Katherine Anne Porters, and thankfully Joan Givner has refrained from reducing them to one. With patience and understanding, she presents this woman as the 'aristocratic first lady of American letters, linguist, musician, femme fatale, and raconteur, ' destined perhaps for rediscovery by a new generation of readers. --Christian Science Monitor Givner's most dramatic feat is to explode the many legends invented by Porter. . . . But the unvarnished truth only sharpens one's sense of Porter's accomplishment. --New York Review of Books

Reseña del editor:

Porter was the both the first lady of American letters and a woman whose indomitable will forged a life that, as biographer Joan Givner makes clear, was not only remarkable but may have been her most creative fiction of all. Born Callie Porter in the log-cabin poverty of rural Texas, she invented her own history, changing her name and ""acquiring"" a lineage of statesmen to become an aristocratic daughter of the Old South. Porter lived a life of drama and passion that spanned nine decades and witnessed some of this century's most tumultuous events. She travelled from revolutionary Mexico in the 1920s to Berlin at Hitler's rise and to Paris at the start of World War II; from Hollywood in the Forties to Washington during the Kennedy era. Somehow, by design or coincidence, she was always right in the eye of the storm when history was being made. By the end of her life, she had risen from rags to riches, anonymity to renown - all on her own terms, all on the strength of her talent, her immense stamina, and her often ruthless determination. As evocative of her era it is of the woman herself, this book is a portrait of an artist who crafted her life to appear as elegant and structured as her short stories and who, in so doing, sometimes edited out some of her own experience the hard, cold facts that until now have remained obscure.

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0820313408
• ISBN 13: 9780820313405
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 616