A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0393057712 ISBN 13: 9780393057713

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004

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Writers whose lives and work were inspired by the late fiction editor at The New Yorker share intimate essays and other writings about his contributions as a mentor, an author, and a literary correspondent, in a collection that includes contributions by such figures as Alice Munroe, Anthony Hecht, and John Updike. 10,000 first printing.

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William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him-both the man and his work-offer intimate essays, most specifically written for this volume, that "bring him back to life, right there in front of us." Alec Wilkinson writes of Maxwell as mentor; Edward Hirsch remembers him in old age; Charles Baxter illuminates the magnificent novel So Long, See You Tomorrow; Ben Cheever recalls Maxwell and his own father; Donna Tartt vividly describes Maxwell's kindness to herself as a first novelist; and Michael Collier admires him as a supreme literary correspondent. Other appreciations include insightful pieces by Alice Munro, Anthony Hecht, a poem by John Updike, and a brief tribute from Paula Fox. Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech "The Writer as Illusionist."

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0393057712
• ISBN 13: 9780393057713
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 234
• Redattore: Baxter Charles, Collier Michael, Hirsch Edward