For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader
Language: English
Published by Mercer University Press, 2001
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- Title
- For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader
- Author
- Hendricks, Randy J; Perkins, James A
- Publisher
- Mercer University Press
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0865546827
- ISBN 13
- 9780865546820
In addition to being a text on short story writing, the stories in For the Record provide a social history of Woodville, a small town in West Tennessee. Though the life, both tragic and comic, presented in these stories is vanished, it was for the most part responsible for tempering the shape and character of the New South. Understanding Woodville helps the reader understand the tensions and struggles of the contemporary South.
The volume includes an excellent introduction to the short stories as well as an excellent discussion of Drakes use of language. His use of language is perhaps Drakes greatest legacyno writer alive today has an ear so attuned to capturing the color and rhythm of human speech.
Finally, included in this volume is an exclusive interview with Robert Drake on life, writing, and reading.
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About the Author
James A. Perkins is professor of English at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He has been an NEH Fellow at Yale University, New York University, and Princeton University, and was awarded a Fulbright in 1998. He is also an award-winning poet. His previous publications include Snakes, Butterbeans, and the Discovery of Electricity, and Robert Penn Warrens All the Kings Men: Three Stage Versions which he coedited with James Grimshaw.
Hendricks and Perkins were both graduate students of Drake at the University of Tennessee.
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