Going to See the Elephant - Pieces of a Writing Life

"No writer I've ever read is as good as George Garrett when it comes to showing me both sides at the same instant. Fact and factoid, respect and derision, truth and falsehood, saint and sinner, art and dross, heads and tails, all show their bold faces in these stern yet cheerful pieces about literary triumphs and quasi-literary follies. There is much here for the younger writer trying to learn the way, but there is also plenty for us to chew on who thought we were veterans." -Henry Taylor

Info autore

Author of thirty-two books and editor or co-editor of nineteen others, GEORGE GARRETT recently retired from the University of Virginia after a forty-year teaching career. Among his many honors are the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Sewanee Review Fellowship in Poetry; fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry; the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife of fifty years.

Riassunto

This collection of essays by novelist and poet, George Garrett presents his meditations on the art and craft of writing. Garrett is the author of 32 books and among his many honours are the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: George Garrett, George P. Garrett
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeb Livingood (Editore)
• Editore: Texas Review Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.05.2002
• EAN: 9781881515425
• ISBN: 978-1-881515-42-5
• Pagine: 200
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 306 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Bibliografia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata