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The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963

The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963

Godwin, Gail
Neufeld, Rob

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0812974697
ISBN13: 9780812974690
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: Jan 30 2007
Pages: 333
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old when she wrote: I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created. It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. Now, in The Making of a Writer, Godwin has distilled her early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence. She conveys the feverish period following the breakup of her first marriage; the fateful decision to move to Europe and the shock of her first encounters with Danish customs (and Danish men); the pleasures of soaking in the human drama on long rambles through the London streets and the torment of lonely Sundays spent wrestling these impressions into prose; and the determination to create despite rejection and a growing stack of debts. I do not feel like a failure, Godwin insists. I will keep writing, harder than ever.

Brimming with urgency and wit, Godwin's inspiring tome opens a shining window into the life and craft of a great writer just coming into her own.

A generous gift from a much-loved author to her readers.

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