Screen LibraryOne matchless time : a life of William Faulkner /
Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century author of "As I Lay Dying," who struggled to rise above such challenges as a difficult marriage and alcoholism.
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Harper Perennial,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2005. ©2004 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: |
Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century author of "As I Lay Dying," who struggled to rise above such challenges as a difficult marriage and alcoholism. Jay Parini, the author of highly praised biographies of Robert Frost and John Steinbeck, has now written an engaging biography of one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. One Matchless Time is a sympathetic, sweeping evocation of William Faulkner's life and work. From his birth in 1897 in Mississippi to his death sixty-five years later, Faulkner spent almost his entire life on this one small patch of land, the "significant soil" from which all his fiction grew. Jay Parini paints an intimate picture of Faulkner's Mississippi world and shows how the artist transfo |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 492, [14] pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-461) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780060935559 0060935553 0066210720 9780066210728 |
| Index Number: | PS3511 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/F263P |
| Contents: |
Origins -- Town life -- Excursions and extensions -- Into his own -- In Yoknapatawpha County -- The circle widens -- The writer as patriarch -- Wilderness -- Seven lean years -- The world's eye -- In his time -- Significant soil. |