Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole - Couverture rigide

Nevils, Rene Pol; Hardy, Deborah George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807126802 ISBN 13 : 9780807126806

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is a biography of the author of the phenomenally successful, Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Confederacy of Dunces". John Kennedy Toole is revealed to have been many things: a mollycoddled only child; an academic prodigy; a soul tortured by conflicting feelings for his mother and about his sexual identity; and a fun-loving master of mimicry. The authors recount the numerous hands his novel went through on its way to realization as a book, including those of Robert Gottlieb, Hodding Carter Jr, Walker Percy, Roger Strauss, and Les Phillabaum. Toole's mother Thelma is reflected in all her fascinating and irritating dysfunction, and receives due credit for bringing her son's novel to its enthusiastic readership, even as her contribution to his suicidal state of mind is pondered.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rene Pol Nevils lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, Rick. Deborah George Hardy lives in Los Angeles with her husband, John, and their two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807126802
• ISBN 13: 9780807126806
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible