One Matchless Time: A Life Of William Faulkner - Softcover

Parini, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060935553 ISBN 13: 9780060935559

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2016

Synopsis

487 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Faulkner Was A Literary Genius, And One Of America's Most Important And Influential Writers.

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Review:

"A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling."--Seattle Times

"A matchless look at the writer... With his characteristic elegance, Parini captures splendidly Faulkner's... inestimable literary achievement."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"An accomplished novelist and biographer, Parini . . . provides a brisk, engrossing account of Faulkner's life."--Oregonian

"Told with literary grace, pacing, and narrative drive... Jay Parini's biography of William Faulkner easily tops all others."--Frank Lentricchia, Duke University

"Does everything a good literary biography should do...ONE MATCHLESS TIME is...a Faulkner biography for our time."--Joseph Blotner, Sewanee Review

"Fine biography... Parini maintains a good balance of the man and his art. [His] analyses ring true."--Tennessean

"No living literary biographer, and few dead ones, surpass Jay Parini's skill...[He] renders a formidable giant of letters accessible.--Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer of Mark Twain

"The time is right for a biography like Jay Parini's ONE MATCHLESS TIME."--Wall Street Journal

"Irresistible...A new understanding of how [Faulkner] connected his violent, inchoate past with literature's perdurable future...Reads like a novel."--Christian Science Monitor

"[Parini] has a fellow writer's appreciation for Faulkner's language, and expresses that appreciation vividly...His book pays eloquent tribute."--J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books

About the Author:

Michael Hoffman is a filmmaker known for creating complex and layered stories with great attention to detail and character. A skilled writer and director, he has worked on both feature films and documentaries, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Club, Game of Six, and the ESPN documentary Out of the Blue. The Last Station is his most recent film.

Jay Parini is a professor of English & Creative Writing at Middlebury College in Vermont. A writer and academic, he is best known for his novels and poetry. He is the author of the novel The Last Station, which is now a major motion picture from Sony Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0060935553
• ISBN 13: 9780060935559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 522