The shadow in the garden : a biographer's tale
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781101871690, 1101871695
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Barrington - Non-Fiction (Main Floor) | 808.066 ATL | On Shelf |
North Kingstown - Non-Fiction (Lower Level) | 808.066 Atl | On Shelf |
William Hall - Adult Non-Fiction | B ATLAS JAMES | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781101871690, 1101871695
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-366) and index.
Description
"The biographer--so often in the shadows, kibitzing, casting doubt, proving facts--comes to the stage in this funny, poignant, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented. James Atlas, the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, takes us back to his own childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers' lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer of James Joyce and Atlas's professor during a transformative year at Oxford. We get to know Atlas's first subject, the "self-doomed" poet Delmore Schwartz. And we are introduced to a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the "tall pines," as Mary McCarthy once called them, cut down now, according to Atlas, by the merciless pruning of mortality); and, of course, the elusive Bellow, "a metaphysician of the ordinary." Atlas also revisits the lives and works of the classical biographers, the Renaissance writers of what were then called "lives," Samuel Johnson and the obsessive Boswell, and the Victorian masters Mrs. Gaskell and Thomas Carlyle. And in what amounts to a pocket history of his own literary generation, Atlas celebrates the biographers who hoped to glimpse an image of them--"as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed up in a crowd.""--,Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Atlas, J. (2017). The shadow in the garden: a biographer's tale (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Atlas, James. 2017. The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Atlas, James. The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale Pantheon Books, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Atlas, James. The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale First edition., Pantheon Books, 2017.
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