The Wintering (Voices of the South S.) - Softcover

Williams, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807122270 ISBN 13: 9780807122273

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Joan Williams' third novel, a roman a clef of her relationship with William Faulkner, is the poignant and unusual story of the love between a world-famous writer and a young woman who comes to pay homage to him. Looking to novelist Jeffrey Almoner for advice and inspiration, inexperienced, naive Amy Howard writes him a letter full of all the pain and joy of her youth. The jaded author is moved to respond, and soon the two are meeting clandestinely, in bus stations and off Mississippi back roads, drawn into an affair complicated by her keen awareness of the great difference in their ages and by his marriage.

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About the Author

Joan Williams is the author of five novels, including The Morning and the Evening, which won the John P. Marquand First Novel Award, and a collection of short stories. She is the recipient of a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

Synopsis

Looking to novelist Jeffrey Almoner for advice and inspiration, Amy Howard writes him a letter full of the pain and joy of her youth. Soon the two are meeting clandestinely, finding themselves drawn into an affair complicated by the difference in age and his marriage.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0807122270
• ISBN 13: 9780807122273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384