Clem Anderson

Author : R. V. Cassill
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497685133
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clem Anderson written by R. V. Cassill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best novel I know of on the subject of writing, or on the condition of being a writer.” —Richard Yates Widely recognized as R. V. Cassill’s masterpiece, Clem Anderson is the story of an author whose astonishing talents are outmatched only by his capacity for self-destruction. Arrogant, untrustworthy, moody, and narcissistic, Clem is also a brilliant artist capable of astonishing feats of alchemy: His pen magically transforms real life into the stuff of great literature. But the rising tide of literary success is dangerous ground for a personality as unstable as Clem’s, and when he dies at the age of forty, alone and disgraced, it is up to his few remaining friends to pick up the pieces. The most steadfast and empathetic of these survivors is Dick Hartsell, a former classmate and fellow writer who has long walked in Clem’s shadow. Commissioned by a movie studio to publish a memorial article about his doomed friend, Hartsell struggles to capture the man’s unruly existence in this tidy format. So he sets out to write a novel called Clem Anderson, detailing his eponymous hero’s epic rise and fall. From a rural midwestern childhood to early fame as an undergraduate poet to the intoxicating expatriate literary scene in post–World War II Paris and an unhappy romance with a Hollywood starlet, Hartsell tells the story of Anderson’s life. The result is a work of art as singular and unforgettable as its ill-fated subject.

Author : R. V. Cassill
Publisher : Not Applicable
ISBN 13 : 9780916366612
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clem Anderson written by R. V. Cassill and published by Not Applicable. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Greg Barnhisel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350191728
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures written by Greg Barnhisel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently. Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.

Author : Ronald Verlin Cassill
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671817039
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clem Anderson written by Ronald Verlin Cassill and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1977-12-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812995120
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits and Observations written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and far, Capote’s eye for detail and dazzling style made his reportage and commentary undeniable triumphs of the form. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Hollywood, written when he was twenty-two, to meditations about fame, fortune, and the writer’s art at the peak of his career, to the brief works penned during the isolated denouement of his life, these essays provide an essential window into mid-twentieth-century America as offered by one of its canniest observers. Included are such celebrated masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins,” as well as many long-out-of-print essays, including portraits of Isak Dinesen, Mae West, Marcel Duchamp, Humphrey Bogart, and Marilyn Monroe. Among the highlights are “Ghosts in Sunlight: The Filming of In Cold Blood, “Preface to Music for Chameleons, in which Capote candidly recounts the highs and lows of his long career, and a playful self-portrait in the form of an imaginary self-interview. The book concludes with the author’s last written words, composed the day before his death in 1984, the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather,” Capote’s touching recollection of his encounter with the author when he was a young man at the dawn of his career. Portraits and Observations puts on display the full spectrum of Truman Capote’s brilliance. Certainly, Capote was, as Somerset Maugham famously called him, “a stylist of the first quality.” But as the pieces gathered here remind us, he was also an artist of remarkable substance.

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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 768 pages
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Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Garlick
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1038306337
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well written by David Garlick and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Garlick, your favourite educational storyteller, is back with a new collection of short stories: The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well. It’s a ‘mostly true’ memoir that follows Garlick from pre-school to post retirement. The majority of stories, such as “At the Intersection of Adolescence and Technology,” “Three A.M. Hypochondria,” and “Kid, Your Dad Knows Everybody,” display a gentle sense of humour that will have you laughing and turning the page to get to the next story. Others, like “They’ve Already Won,” will grab at your heartstrings. Some stories do a bit of both. Every aspect of Garlick’s career is dealt with, from student to teacher to vice-principal and principal to retiree. The stories show the rollercoaster ride that is education, whether you’re the student, teacher or principal. As one reviewer of the first book said, “If you are a teacher, were a teacher, or know a teacher, this is a must read!” Although the target audience of The Principal Chronicles was intended to be educators, people from all walks of life, and all ages have found the stories relatable and enjoyable. People who finished that book wanting more will love Two/Too/II/As Well. As long as you like to laugh, this book is for you!

Author : Blake Bailey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423759
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tragic Honesty written by Blake Bailey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always exposed readers to the unsettling hypocrisies of our modern age. In Blake Bailey's masterful and entertaining biography, Yates himself serves as the fascinating lens into mid-century America, a world of would-be artists, depressed housewives, addled businessmen, high living, wistful striving, and self-deception. The story of Richard Yates here stands as a singular reminder of what the writer must sacrifice for his craft, the devil's bargain of artistry for happiness, praise for sanity.

Author : Casey Clabough
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865549456
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimentation and Versatility written by Casey Clabough and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Experimentation and Versatility considers Chappell's first four novels and his short fiction - the novels chronologically and the short stories thematically - in order to demonstrate the unique range and importance of his fictional prose. Rather than inserting Chappell's fictional variables into a single theoretical formula, Clabough traces and celebrates their various and multifaceted excursions into genres as disparate as Appalachian pastoralism and experimental science fiction. Containing both an interview with Chappell and a previously unpublished short story, Experimentation and Versatility also offers new primary sources on Chappell's work, even as it contextualizes him as one of our most exciting and multi-talented contemporary writers. Investigating the complexities of Chappell's work, Clabough's study offers new ways of considering Chappell, who has been characterized variously as a Appalachian, Southern, and fantasy writer. However, as Clabough demonstrates, he is, in fact, all and none of these things - a writer of immense gifts constantly reinventing himself through his experiments in seemingly disparate genres."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved