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A WILLIAM MAXWELL PORTRAIT
MEMORIES AND APPRECIATIONS |
| By: |
Charles Baxter (Editor), Michael Collier (Editor), Edward Hirsch (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£37.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393057712 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393057713 |
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| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
17 August, 2004 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Three generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Ending this splendid collection is Maxwell himself, in the unpublished speech "The Writer as Illusionist."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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Illustrations |
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US |
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WW Norton & Co |
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