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Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565122186ISBN 13: 9781565122185
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. For a decade--from 1973 to 1982--John Gardner was one of America's most famous writers and certainly its most flamboyantly opinionated. His 1973 novel, The Sunlight Dialogues, was on the New York Times bestseller list for fourteen weeks. Once in the limelight, he picked public fights with his peers, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Norman Mailer among them, and wrote five more bestsellers.Gardner's personal life was as chaotic as his writing life was prolific. At twenty, he married his cousin Joan, and after a long marriage that was both passionate and violent, left her for Liz Rosenberg, a student. Only a few years later, he left Rosenberg for another student, Susan Thornton. Famous for disregarding his own safety, he rode his motorcycle at crazy speeds, incurred countless concussions, and once broke both of his arms. He survived what was diagnosed as terminal colon cancer only to resume his prodigious drinking and to die in a motorcycle accident at age forty-nine, a week before his third wedding.Biographer Barry Silesky captures John Gardner's fabulously contradictory genius and his capacity to both dazzle and infuriate. He portrays Gardner as a man of unrestrained energy and blatant contempt for convention and also as a man whose charisma drew students and devoted followers wherever he went. Amazingly, Gardner published twenty-nine books in all, including eleven fiction titles, a book-length epic poem, six books of medieval criticism, and a major biography. Twenty-one years after his death, his On Moral Fiction and The Art Of Fiction are still read and debated in MFA programs across the country.This is a full-scale biography of a writer who was, for ten years, almost bigger than life. It lives up to its subject magnificently.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2007
ISBN 10: 1565124553ISBN 13: 9781565124554
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him.This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years-a hero as important to American history as his more political contemporaries George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps and illustrations underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2003
ISBN 10: 1565123565ISBN 13: 9781565123564
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565122186ISBN 13: 9781565122185
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. For a decade--from 1973 to 1982--John Gardner was one of America's most famous writers and certainly its most flamboyantly opinionated. His 1973 novel, The Sunlight Dialogues, was on the New York Times bestseller list for fourteen weeks. Once in the limelight, he picked public fights with his peers, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Norman Mailer among them, and wrote five more bestsellers.Gardner's personal life was as chaotic as his writing life was prolific. At twenty, he married his cousin Joan, and after a long marriage that was both passionate and violent, left her for Liz Rosenberg, a student. Only a few years later, he left Rosenberg for another student, Susan Thornton. Famous for disregarding his own safety, he rode his motorcycle at crazy speeds, incurred countless concussions, and once broke both of his arms. He survived what was diagnosed as terminal colon cancer only to resume his prodigious drinking and to die in a motorcycle accident at age forty-nine, a week before his third wedding.Biographer Barry Silesky captures John Gardner's fabulously contradictory genius and his capacity to both dazzle and infuriate. He portrays Gardner as a man of unrestrained energy and blatant contempt for convention and also as a man whose charisma drew students and devoted followers wherever he went. Amazingly, Gardner published twenty-nine books in all, including eleven fiction titles, a book-length epic poem, six books of medieval criticism, and a major biography. Twenty-one years after his death, his On Moral Fiction and The Art Of Fiction are still read and debated in MFA programs across the country.This is a full-scale biography of a writer who was, for ten years, almost bigger than life. It lives up to its subject magnificently.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2013
ISBN 10: 1616201614ISBN 13: 9781616201616
Seller: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2013
ISBN 10: 1616201614ISBN 13: 9781616201616
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565124197ISBN 13: 9781565124196
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565124065ISBN 13: 9781565124066
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2007
ISBN 10: 1565124553ISBN 13: 9781565124554
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him.This rich, authoritative biography offers a wholly new perspective on a man who has been an American icon for more than two hundred years-a hero as important to American history as his more political contemporaries George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps and illustrations underscore the scope of this distinguished and immensely entertaining work.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2007
ISBN 10: 1565124553ISBN 13: 9781565124554
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2003
ISBN 10: 1565124030ISBN 13: 9781565124035
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2013
ISBN 10: 1616201614ISBN 13: 9781616201616
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565124197ISBN 13: 9781565124196
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565124065ISBN 13: 9781565124066
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565124049ISBN 13: 9781565124042
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2004
ISBN 10: 1565122186ISBN 13: 9781565122185
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: A Shannon Ravenel Book, 2002
ISBN 10: 1565123484ISBN 13: 9781565123489
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.