Conversations With John Gardner

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878054237
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with John Gardner written by John Gardner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.

Author : John W. Gardner
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789120071
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Renewal written by John W. Gardner and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The only stability possible is stability in motion.”—John William Gardner In his classic treatise Self-Renewal, John W. Gardner examines why great societies thrive and die. He argues that it is dynamism, not decay, that is dramatically altering the landscape of American society. The twentieth century has brought about change more rapidly than any previous era, and with that came advancements, challenges, and often destruction. Gardner cautions that “a society must court the kinds of change that will enrich and strengthen it, rather than the kind of change that will fragment and destroy it.” A society’s ability to renew itself hinges upon its individuals. Gardner reasons that it is the waning of the heart and spirit—not a lack of material might—that threatens American society. Young countries, businesses, and humans have several key commonalities: they are flexible, eager, open, curious, unafraid, and willing to take risks. These conditions lead to success. However, as time passes, so too comes complacency, apathy, and rigidity, causing motivation to plummet. It is at this junction that great civilizations fall, businesses go bankrupt, and life stagnates. Gardner asserts that the individual’s role in social renewal requires each person to face and look beyond imminent threats. Ultimately, we need a vision that there is something worth saving. Through this vision, Gardner argues, society will begin to renew itself, not permanently, but past its average lifespan, and it will at once become enriched and rejuvenated.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216708
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sunlight Dialogues written by John Gardner and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, compassionate, and often disturbing, this expansive novel is John Gardner's masterpiece.

Author : Joyce Renwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896830264
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Gardner written by Joyce Renwick and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Moral Fiction written by John Gardner and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1978-04-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that ”true art is by its nature moral.”

Author : Barry Silesky
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565122186
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Gardner written by Barry Silesky and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed portrait of one of the twentieth century's most controversial American authors describes John Gardner's turbulent and contradictory life, including his prodigious writing talents and literary success, chaotic personal life, contempt for convention, charisma, drinking problems, and tragic death in a motorcycle accident at the age of forty-nine.

Author : Ava Gardner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471101169
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ava Gardner written by Ava Gardner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston, and Richard Burton - the A-list of male Hollywood stars. Married three times - to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra - the first two lasted only about a year each whilst her marriage to Sinatra lasted several. She had a long-running affair with Howard Hughes, and a briefer one with George C. Scott, among others. In Ava Gardner, she has much to say about her husbands and lovers, and some of her co-stars,all of whom get Gardner's unflinchingly honest treatment. Ava Gardner is irresistibly candid and surprising. She began the book because, as she told Evans, 'it's either write the book or sell the jewels and I'm kinda fond of the jewels.' At the time of their collaboration Gardner was living in London, where she had lived for decades, smoking and drinking heavily. Having suffered a stroke that damaged the left side of her face and her left arm she had trouble sleeping and was often depressed - the glamorous wardrobes replaced by grey. Her story could itself have been depressing except for her wit and wickedness, which are on full display in this book. This book tells the story of her life as she wanted to tell it. Ava Gardner is the autobiography that Ava Gardner began with writer Peter Evans in 1988. She never finished it and decided against publishing it because of its frankness. She later collaborated on a tamer autobiography, which was published at her death in 1990. After Gardner's death, her estate authorised the book to be published much as she and Evans had originally conceived it.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453203702
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Living written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspired book of short stories that explores the profound relationship between life and art While mourning the loss of his son in the Vietnam War, an Italian chef reflects on the importance of art for future generations. An American boy retreats inward after he kills his younger brother in a farming accident, finding solace in classical music and a friendship with his teacher. Placing the artist at the center of his stories, Gardner produces a series of beautiful moments where art must act as a life-affirming force—and creates a collection of poignant narratives as a result. In The Art of Living, author John Gardner brings his most significant themes to life with stunning eloquence and masterful narration. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756785
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grendel written by John Gardner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198818750
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Personal Life to Private Law written by John Gardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book ... is a descendant of my eponymous Quain Lectures, delivered at University College London in 2014"--Preface.