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A re-creation of Anton Chekhov's self-exploratory journey in 1890 across Russia to a penal colony on the island of Sakhalin interweaves with the author's own journey, in an exploration of the need for freedom and meaning
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James McConkey is the author of Crossroads, The Tree House Confessions, The Novels of E.M. Forster, the Court of Memory, and many other books. He is Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Cornell University.
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Praise for James McConkey and To a Distant Island
"One of our finest writers."—Annie Dillard
"What a pleasure, and how much there is to learn from this short book!"—Denise Levertov
"A deeply moving, exquisitely written book."—Washington Post Book World
"Exceptionally serene prose...leveled with sharp observation and subtle wit...neither history nor fiction , but rather a kind of reimagining of the past."—Michael Dirda, Smithsonian Magazine
"We have had many straight biographies of writers in recent years...that leave their subjects curiously diminished. Mr. McConkey's achievement...is to send the reader back to the Russian master with renewed wonder."—Harvey Shapiro, The New York Times
"The genre in which McConkey does his best writing has no name. He invented it...What McConkey does is to create meaning out of ordinary life. He'll take a tiny incident...and by linking it through memory with a series of past events, he'll create what is not exactly a story but a pattern in time. By then the incident is no longer small; it has become the focus for a revelation...His books should be famous."—Noel Perrin, U.S.A. Today
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- PublisherDutton Adult
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 052524235X
- ISBN 13 9780525242352
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages196
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