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Before his untimely death on the back of his Harley, novelist John Gardner was known as one of the premier teachers of the craft of writing. His books On Moral Fiction and The Art of Fiction are considered classics. On Writers and Writing collects a number of Gardner's essays and reviews, and his comments on such writers as Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, John Fowles, William Styron, Philip Roth, and Walker Percy are always insightful and frequently provocative. Gardner also writes about influences on his own writing, and his wide-ranging observations about literary life are enlivened by a rambunctious sense of humor. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review , Antaeus , Saturday Review and elsewhere, are sprinkled with sharp put-downs. For example, Gardner calls John Updike's characters "hypersensitive whiners," deems Walker Percy's novel Lancelot "typical bad art . . . pompous" and labels Graham Greene's The Comedians as entertainment that "makes a casual pass at art." Gardner is refreshingly unpredictable, admiring such writers as John Cheever, Italo Calvino, Larry Woiwode, William Gass and Lewis Carroll. His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through. Included are a prickly autobiographical sketch ("Cartoons"), the marvelous essay "What Writers Do" and a short story "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Before his untimely death on the back of his Harley, novelist John Gardner was known as one of the premier teachers of the craft of writing. His books On Moral Fiction and The Art of Fiction are considered classics. On Writers and Writing collects a number of Gardner's essays and reviews, and his comments on such writers as Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, John Fowles, William Styron, Philip Roth, and Walker Percy are always insightful and frequently provocative. Gardner also writes about influences on his own writing, and his wide-ranging observations about literary life are enlivened by a rambunctious sense of humor. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review , Antaeus , Saturday Review and elsewhere, are sprinkled with sharp put-downs. For example, Gardner calls John Updike's characters "hypersensitive whiners," deems Walker Percy's novel Lancelot "typical bad art . . . pompous" and labels Graham Greene's The Comedians as entertainment that "makes a casual pass at art." Gardner is refreshingly unpredictable, admiring such writers as John Cheever, Italo Calvino, Larry Woiwode, William Gass and Lewis Carroll. His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through. Included are a prickly autobiographical sketch ("Cartoons"), the marvelous essay "What Writers Do" and a short story "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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