Format:
XIV, 393 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781438473314
Series Statement:
Excelsior editions
Uniform Title:
Works Selections
Content:
"Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of the acclaimed literary career of the award-winning novelist William Kennedy. Often cited as one of the foremost authors of his generation, Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world's literary map along with James Joyce's Dublin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Macondo, and William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Bringing together reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays, as well as essays, speeches, two plays, and a short story by the author himself, this collection assesses for the first time in one volume the full sweep of Kennedy's long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy's novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety"--
Content:
Foreword: conjuring ghosts with William Kennedy / Paul Grondahl -- The sudden fame of William Kennedy / Margaret Croyden -- O Albany! O Kennedy! / Doris Grumbach -- William Kennedy: interview / Edward Schwarzschild -- Human capital: O Albany! pays homage to the hard-to-love city that is the greatest hero of Kennedy's novels / Stefan Beck -- Violent places: on ghosts, bums, and redemption in Ironweed / Robert Towers -- The literary brilliance of the opening of Ironweed / Donald Newlove -- Rattling great yarn: Quinn's book / Fintan O'Toole -- Family values: William Kennedy's Very Old Bones / Thomas R. Edwards -- Bootlegger of the soul: an introduction to Roscoe / Colum McCann -- O Albany! Roscoe and the triumph of Kennedy's Albany Cycle / Thomas Flanagan -- World premiere of Roscoe: American opera at its finest / Anthony P. Radford -- Jam Session: a review of Changó's Beads and Two-tone Shoes / John Sayles -- An interview with William Kennedy: from novelist to screenwriter / William Patrick -- Why it took so long -- Reinventing Albany in fiction: notes from a Native Son -- Learning from Faulkner: the obituary of fear -- Gifts from Joyc -- Saul Bellow (1915-2005): a great insistent gift -- A nonpareil force field: a tribute to Norman Mailer -- A box of books: an exchange, on matters literary and postal, with Hunter S. Thompson -- The Secrets of Creative Love: A Short Story -- In the system: a technology play -- The interrupted apotheosis of Jack (Legs) Diamond: a one-act play -- William Kennedy as journalist: springboard to novelist / Douglas Brinkley -- Edward and Katrina Daugherty: a match made in Albany, not in heaven / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- The snows of reduction: representing homelessness in Ironweed / Benedict Giamo -- A magical time in Albany / Christian Michener -- The cyclical impulse of the flaming corsage / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- Courtesans, stars, wives, and vixens: the many faces of female power in Kennedy's novels / Neila Seshachari
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438473321
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Kennedy, William 1928-
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