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Moore Steven - The Letters Of William Gaddis Revised And Expanded Edition - Paperback
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Description: A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R shedding light on his staunchly private life. Updated WITH OVER TWO Dozen NEW Letters AND Photographs Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death these letters function as a kind of autobiography and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (1955) while living in Mexico fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica and working in Spain France and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce A Frolic of His Own (1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts he finishes a last novel Agap Agape (published in 2002) as he lies dying. This newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore as well as an afterword by the author's daughter Sarah Gaddis.
Title: The Letters Of William Gaddis Revised And Expanded Edition
Author(s): Moore Steven
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375830
Pages: 688 Pages
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Memoirs
Description: A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R shedding light on his staunchly private life. Updated WITH OVER TWO Dozen NEW Letters AND Photographs Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death these letters function as a kind of autobiography and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel The Recognitions (1955) while living in Mexico fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica and working in Spain France and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter's Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce A Frolic of His Own (1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts he finishes a last novel Agap Agape (published in 2002) as he lies dying. This newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore as well as an afterword by the author's daughter Sarah Gaddis.
Title: The Letters Of William Gaddis Revised And Expanded Edition
Author(s): Moore Steven
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375830
Pages: 688 Pages
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Memoirs
