Books written by Blake Bailey
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Philip Roth: The Biography
... He presents Roth's life and books with grace and unflinching honesty, connecting the man to the work in a way that makes each more compelling as the story proceeds. ... This book is not the tip of the iceberg but the iceberg itself.
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The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
AFTER NYU, MY father was hired by Morrison, Hecker, Cozad & Morrison in Kansas City, where he and my mother and Scott lived in an apartment complex called the Village Green. I picture their twostory row house as a rather drab, ...
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Philip Roth: The Biography
... 450 Moore, Jackie, 177 Moore, Lorrie, 663 Morahan, Christopher, 470n Morath, Inge, 229, 787 Morgenthau, Henry, 37 Morris, Wright, 203 Morrison, Toni, 629,729, 778 Moses, Jeffrey, 631, 797 Mo Yan, 730 Mr. Sammler's Planet (Bellow), ...
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Cheever
John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America.
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Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
From the prizewinning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever, here is the fascinating biography of Charles Jackson, the author of The Lost Weekend—a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a ...
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A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
An incisive portrait of celebrated American novelist and short short writer Richard Yates describes his turbulent personal life, his struggle with alcoholism and manic depression, his financial woes, and his remarkable literary works- ...
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John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #188)
John Cheever’s stories rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century short fiction. Ensnared by the trappings of affluence, adrift in the emptiness of American prosperity, his characters find themselves in...
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John Cheever: Complete Novels (LOA #189): The Wapshot Chronicle / The Wapshot Scandal / Bullet Park / Falconer / Oh...
""John Cheever is one of the few living American novelists," wrote John Gardner in 1977, "who might qualify as true artists. His work ranges from competent to awesome on all...
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Cheever: A Life
A portrait of the life of John Cheever reveals a soul in conflict, describing his life as a high-school dropout, alcoholic, secret bisexual, and a man who concealed his deeply-rooted anxieties while becoming one of the most iconic literary ...
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Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
This is the fascinating biography of a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted homosexual in mid-century America, and who was far ahead of his time in bringing these forbidden subjects into the ...
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Philip Roth. La biografía
... chico típicamente americano que sentía pasión por el béisbol » . [ 5 ] En ese sentido era exactamente igual que sus amigos . Mientras hacía los deberes o estaba tumbado en la cama , tenía al alcance de la mano la pelota , el bate y el ...
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The 60s
A nostalgic look at the 1960s, especially as it related to the United States, and discusses some characteristics of and results from the psychedelic decade.