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One Matchless Time : A Life of William Faulkner by Jay Parini (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100066210720

ISBN-139780066210728

eBay Product ID (ePID)30473475

Product Key Features

Book TitleOne Matchless Time : Alife of William Faulkner

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Literary, American / General, Historical

Publication Year2004

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJay Parini

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight31 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-042891

ReviewsParini--his prose crystalline, his interpretation proficient--brilliantly illuminates Faulkner's complex psyche... Engrossing and revelatory, this is a landmark biography.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey DecimalB

SynopsisJay Parini, the author of highly praised biographies of Robert Frost and John Steinbeck, has now written an engaging biography of one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. One Matchless Time is a sympathetic, sweeping evocation of William Faulkner's life and work. From his birth in 1897 in Mississippi to his death sixty-five years later, Faulkner spent almost his entire life on this one small patch of land, the "significant soil" from which all his fiction grew. Jay Parini paints an intimate picture of Faulkner's Mississippi world and shows how the artist transformed this raw material into Yoknapatawpha County, a place of pure imagination. Between 1928 and 1942, during what Faulkner called his "one matchless time," a period of wild inspiration when characters and stories came to him mysteriously and in abundance, he published more than half a dozen masterpieces, including the novels The Sound and the Fury ; As I Lay Dying ; Sanctuary ; Light in August ; Absalom, Absalom ; The Wild Palms ; Go Down, Moses ; and The Hamlet . This is an astonishing achievement without equal in American literature. Parini, who has taught Faulkner's work to students for nearly thirty years, vividly brings to life this writer's complex fictional world in the context of his life, using the one to illuminate the other. He uses letters and memoirs unavailable to earlier biographers as well as interviews he had with Faulkner's daughter and several of his lovers. His William Faulkner is an immensely gifted, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage, but someone who rose above his limitations to become a figure of major importance on the stage of world literature. One Matchless Time is a magnificent biography, profound, thought-provoking, meticulously researched, elegantly composed, and a tribute to the genius of its subject., "Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It's an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner's life with the narrative drive of a novel." -- Houston Chronicle "A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling." -- Seattle Times William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources--including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulkner's daughter and lovers--Jay Parini has crafted a biography that delves into the mystery of this gifted and troubled writer. His Faulkner is an extremely talented, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage who somehow transcends his limitations. Parini weaves the tragedies and triumphs of Faulkner's life in with his novels, serving up a biography that's as engaging as it is insightful.

LC Classification NumberPS3511.A86Z9445 2004