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Title: Faulkner : A Biography by Joseph Blotner ISBN: 0-679-73053-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A useful but deeply flawed biography.
Comment: Blotner did a prodigious amount of research for this biography. Any later writer who wants to produce a biography of Faulkner will inevitably find himself or herself relying on much of Blotner's work. The reader, however, will not be so grateful. Blotner seems incapable of distinguishing between that which is important and that which is not. It seems as though he has dumped almost everything he learned into this book. And he learned quite a lot. Why we need, for example, to know the names of everyone Faulkner came into contact with? Finally, Blotner is not a gifted writer; his style is typical of the academic. I can only hope someone writes a shorter, more readable biography of Faulkner someday.
Rating: 5
Summary: Blotner's compendium of Faulkner's life.
Comment: Originally published in two volumes, Joseph L. Blotner's
biography of the imminent writer of the American South,
William Faulkner, is often touted as THE chronicle of
Faulkner's life. Blotner's style is really quite readable.
Indeed, this text is so accessible, one must question his
accountability on some instances of Faukner's words to
friends and loved ones. (Who really remembers what his
wife's father said to him on a particular day--famous or
not?) All in all, though, this chronicle sits on the top of
the biographical heap for the time being. And it probably
won't be displaced for many years to come.
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Title: Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 039330812X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 039330762X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393307611 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393307069 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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