Jean Stafford: The Savage Heart - Softcover

Goodman, Charlotte Margolis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029273574X ISBN 13: 9780292735743

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1990

Synopsis

In this literary biography, Goodman traces the life of the brilliant but troubled Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jean Stafford, and reassesses her importance. Drawing on a wealth of original material, Goodman describes the vital connections beftween Stafford's life and her fiction, as well as her amazing ability to transform the chaotic details of her life into elegant stories.

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Review:

"The integration of life and art, so central to a study of Jean Stafford's fiction, is the focus of Professor Goodman's book. Using the wealth of available documents and many interviews, this scholar explores the circumstances which contributed to a rebellious, often self-destructive personality.... Professor Goodman's meticulous use of sources makes her book a classic justification of studying an artist's life so closely as to know that events, elating or horrifying, can be transmuted into high aesthetic experience." * American Literature *

About the Author:

Charlotte M. Goodman is Professor Emerita of English at Skidmore College.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 029273574X
• ISBN 13: 9780292735743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416