Learning a Trade - A Craftsman's Notebooks: 1955-1997

"We have in this fine book a coincidence most fortunate for would-be writers and fellow professionals such as myself: A compulsive keeper of journals over many years who is widely appreciated as one of the most capable authors of this century.
Reynolds Price's life, while as unique as his thumbprint, turns out here to be a strikingly general anatomy of virtually every good writer's artistic development from childhood on. I would not have thought that generalizations about growth in such a complex profession were plausible--until this meticulous dissection was shown to me."--Kurt Vonnegut

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

A Note on the Text xix

Names 1

Story Possibilities, Expressions and Anecdotes, Metaphors, Early Stories and Reading, M, Notes for a New "Anniversary," "Troubled Sleep" 7

A Long and Happy Life 73

Good and Bad Dreams, A Generous Man, A Possible Volume of Stories 131

Love and Work, Scars 137

The Surface of Earth, Stories, A Libretto for Sam Barber, Good Hearts 143

The Source of Light 249

Private Contentment 301

Kate Vaiden 311

New Music 337

Good Hearts 345

The Tongues of Angels, Full Moon, Clear Pictures, Poems, Songs, Stories, The Foreseeable Future, Essays, Blue Calhoun, The Promise of Rest, A Whole New Life 367

Blue Calhoun 507

The Promise of Rest 543

Roxanna Slade 577

Notes 601

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Reynolds Price

Zusammenfassung

The notebooks where Price worked out the characters, plots, and details of his novels.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Price, Reynolds Price, Reynolds Price
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.11.1998
• EAN: 9780822321125
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2112-5
• Seiten: 624
• Gewicht: 1080 g
• Illustration: 5 illustrations
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Ratgeber > Recht, Beruf, Finanzen > Ausbildung, Beruf, Karriere