On Writers and Writing - Softcover

Gardner, MR John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582434948 ISBN 13: 9781582434940

Verlag: Counterpoint LLC, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gardner John

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"For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book."

"His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through."

Reseña del editor

This compilation of essays and reviews, gathered posthumously from the New York Times Book Review and other publications, solidifies John Gardner’s legacy as a consummate teacher and controversial critic with a provocative sense of humor. Writing about his fellow craftsmen, John Gardner offers piercing insights into those whose works he admired and those whose works he didn’t. In exacting unapologetic evaluations upon such writers as Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, John Cheever, Larry Woiwode, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike, Gardner separates genuine fiction from fakery, careful not to spare his own writings in the process, and in doing so, he displays his influences and wide-reaching observations of the literary life.

Refreshingly unpredictable and self-aware, this collection lays bare the core qualities of lasting fiction and is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Counterpoint LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1582434948
• ISBN 13: 9781582434940
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320