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On Writers and Writing
On Writers and Writing
Author: John Gardner, Stewart O'Nan (Editor)
All my life, John Gardner wrote weeks before his death in a motorcycle accident, I've lived flat-out. As a motorcycle racer, chemist, writer I was never cautious. — Gardner's evaluations of his fellow writers are equally flat-out: often warm, occasionally shocking, always full of passion and insight. On Writers and W...  more » brings together Gardner's essays on literature for the first time. In piece after piece he explains how he separates novelistic wheat from chaff, genuine fiction from fakery. A consummate teacher, Gardner examines contemporary writers--Bellow, Nabokov, Roth, Cheever, Woiwode, Oates, Updike, and other major authors--with the same critical but generous eye with which he graded his students writing assignments. In other essays Gardner examines influential storytelling that ranges from King Arthur to Walt Disney. Here we see the skill of some of America's greatest writers laid bare by a fellow craftsman, making On Writers and Writing essential reading for anyone interested in American literature.
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ISBN-13: 9780201483383
ISBN-10: 0201483386
Publication Date: 4/4/1995
Pages: 297
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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