James Dickey: The World As a Lie - Brossura

Hart, Henry

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ISBN 10: 0312204167 ISBN 13: 9780312204167

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2001

Riassunto

A fascinating account of the life of James Dickey, a renowned poet, novelist, sportsman, and womanizer, who made lying an important part of his life,discusses how eventually his own family couldn't tell the real man from the mask. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Henry Hart is the author of critical books on Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, and Geoffrey Hill, as well as two books of poetry. Hart is a professor of English at the College of William & Mary, and lives in Virginia.

Product Description:

A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century.The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks. Letters, anecdotes, tall tales and true ones, as well as the reluctant but finally candid cooperation of Dickey himself animate Hart's narration of a remarkable life. Readers of Dickey's National Book Award-winning poetry, his bestselling novel "Deliverance," and anyone who witnessed his electrifying readings of his work will savor this book.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312204167
• ISBN 13: 9780312204167
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 848