One Person and Another: On Writers and Writing - Hardcover

Stern, Richard G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880909065 ISBN 13: 9781880909065

Publisher: Baskerville Pub, 1993

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One Person and Another: On Writers and WritingAuthor: Richard G. SternTitle: One Person and Another: On Writers and WritingPublication: Baskerville PubEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Baskerville Pub, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with sticker residue on the front cover, and light shelf and edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller ID: 364871Subject: Essays We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

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Issued as the nonfiction accompaniment to Stern's Noble Rot: Stories 1949-1988 (Grove, 1989), this volume collects 63 short writings on 20th-century literary topics, composed from 1956 to 1993. The work includes biography, criticism, and commentary on fiction and poetry, as well as a master writer's impressions of life. It is organized not chronologically but in thematic sections such as "Literary Portraits" and "Getting at Oneself." Its value lies in its disclosure of the thoughts of a working writer considering the art and business of writing. A lengthy section devoted to the 1986 PEN Congress gives an insider's view of the authors' politicized worlds. Stern's personal relationships with associates such as Saul Bellow offer a kind of analysis unlike that of a disinterested critic. While the book doesn't lend itself to being read cover to cover, readers with literary interests will find its scope satisfying. For academic and public collections.
- Janice Braun, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford Univ.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Stern is not a household name, but he has quite a reputation among other writers who, because of their respect, have shown sides of themselves to him--an observant chronicler of their careers and books with much to say about the craft of writing--that have rarely been seen by other profilers. Stern shares his insights in this set of essays. He lets Samuel Beckett's warm heart be seen, also a rarely revealed, self-deprecating side of Saul Bellow: "Maybe now I can write something really good for a change," he ventures after winning the Nobel. Reviewing biographies of figures as diverse as Nixon and Kafka, Stern develops his own ideas of what their lives must have been like and in so doing creates some provocative new images. Elsewhere--as in a tiny play intended to show what would have become of literature if Dante and Shakespeare had had to fear modern lawsuits--Stern hilariously satirizes some of the obstacles facing contemporary writers. Although the collection does reflect the jaded world view that has made Stern's fiction distinctive, Stern also convincingly argues that books--and those who create them--make life undeniably worthwhile. Aaron Cohen

Edition details

• Publisher: Baskerville Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880909065
• ISBN 13: 9781880909065
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256