The Tallons - Couverture souple

March, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817358102 ISBN 13 : 9780817358105

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2015

Synopsis

William March's debut novel, Company K, introduced him to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic, Graham Greene wrote: "It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes." After Company K, March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short stories-his "Pearl County" series-inspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. The University of Alabama Press is pleased to be bringing these three novels back into print.

In The Tallons, the second novel in the "Pearl County" series, March tells the story of two farm boys, Andrew and Jim Tallon. Their placid and predictable life is upended by a girl from Georgia, Myrtle Bickerstaff. The conflict which engulfs these three arises from a series of carefully chosen and extraordinarily telling incidents to a dramatic climax which will be remembered long after the book is set aside. March framed the novel as "a study in paranoia" and to the end of his life considered it one of his strongest works.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William March was born in 1893 as William Edward Campbell in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in the picturesque hamlets of coastal Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. He won fame for his World War I novel Company K, whose success allowed him to devote himself to writing a large body of remarkable short fiction and novels that illuminate early twentieth-century southern life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817358102
• ISBN 13: 9780817358105
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
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• Personne responsable: non disponible