Raw Material: The Autobiographical Examination of an Artist's Journey into Maturity - Couverture souple

La Farge, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0865346739 ISBN 13 : 9780865346734

Editeur : Sunstone Press, 2008

Synopsis

The long, uneasy armistice between two world wars was a trying time for literary artists, particularly for those young men who came to maturity in that period of economic and social upheaval. Oliver La Farge's frank and honest personal narrative is a typical life of one born into the easy world of Newport, New York, Groton, and Harvard, dumped into the melting pot of the Great Depression, and then slammed up against the global war. His purpose "to record the America of one individual" and to set down the raw material from which the writer derives the finished product he offers to the world, is vividly fulfilled in this book. In an Appreciation appearing in this new edition, John Pen La Farge says: "In his autobiography, "Raw Material," Father wrote a superior account of one man's life. As Mother pointed out, it was superior because it was not a mere accounting of what, when, how, and in what order, rather, it was the account of how the raw material of one boy grew into a man, a man whose life both displayed and sought out true integrity."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1901, Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge is ranked among the literary lions of Southwestern letters. Since he died in 1963, his reputation has continued to grow and new honors have been added to his name. "Laughing Boy," a novel of Navajo life, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930, putting his name in lights before he was 30. His other books include "Behind the Mountains," "A Pause in the Desert," "The Mother Ditch," "Cochise of Arizona," "The Enemy Gods," and "The Man With the Calabash Pipe," all available from Sunstone Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sunstone Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865346739
• ISBN 13: 9780865346734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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