One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner - Hardcover

Parini, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066210720 ISBN 13: 9780066210728

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004

Synopsis

Drawing on three decades of new material, a major portrait of the twentieth-century author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom Absalom sets his fictional world in the context of his life, profiling Faulkner as a gifted and obsessive artist who struggled to rise above such challenges as a difficult marriage and alcoholism. By the author of The Apprentice Lover. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

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

"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

"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

"Parini's candid, personal, and extremely readable book is the place to send readers looking for an overview of [Faulkner's] career."--William H. Pritchard, Commonweal

"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

About the Author:

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0066210720
• ISBN 13: 9780066210728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 492