American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey

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Synopsis
It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer's apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson. American Notebooks is much more than a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer. An album of exquisitely drawn literary portraits of companions, intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists and social activists of the period--Edmund and Elena Wilson; Mary Meigs; Maud Maugan; Barbara Deming; Truman Capote; Jacques Hébert, her first Quebec publisher, then senator; and many others--it also introduces many of the real life personalities who have inspired her fictional characters.
Copyright:
1993

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ISBN-13:
9780889229648
Publisher:
Talonbooks, Limited
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VLB
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Communication
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