The Tale Maker - Softcover

Harris, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803272804 ISBN 13: 9780803272804

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

Mark Harris took you out to the ballgame in his Henry Wiggen novels, The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly, A Ticket for a Seamstitch, and It Looked Like For Ever. In The Tale Maker, he takes you to college. Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong. As the editor of the campus Sentinel, he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses. Supported by his parents, he could concentrate on things that mattered: his writing, his wife-to-be, and his friends and enemies―including the warped Kakapick, who serves Rimrose lastingly as model and prototype of the literary scoundrel. Rimrose―Tale Maker of the title―turns from journalism to fiction-writing, kept alive by his wife’s practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his father’s small-town newspaper or playing politics in university service.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Harris is a professor of English at Arizona State University. His celebrated baseball novels have also been reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press.

From the Back Cover

Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong. As editor of the campus 'Sentinel, ' he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses. Rimrose-Tale Maker of the title-turns from journalism to fiction-writing, kept alive by his wife's practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his father's small-town newspaper or playing politics in university service.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803272804
• ISBN 13: 9780803272804
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215