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Conversations with John Gardner

Conversations with John Gardner

Chavkin, Allan
Gardner, John

Paperback

Series: Literary Conversations

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0878054235
ISBN13: 9780878054237
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Nov 1 1990
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists.

These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews.

After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as a major contemporary writer. After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews.

These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers rema

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