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This new edition of Writers includes five new scenes featuring Georges Simenon and Andre Gid©, Flannery O'Connor and William S. Burroughs, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Pauline Garcia-Viardot, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather and Gypsy Rose Lee. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks. This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room. In Gifford's house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. We see their obsessions loom large, and none more than a shared needling preoccupation with mortality. And yet th
| ISBN-13 | 9781644212868 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1644212862 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.02 x 0.48 x 8.01 In |
| List Price | $16.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 192 pages |
| Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
| Published On | 2023-05-02 |
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