In a Farther Country - Softcover

William Goyen (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810150395 ISBN 13: 9780810150393

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1995

Synopsis

William Goyen's second novel, In a Farther Country is perhaps the most charming of all his work. Marietta McGee-Chavez and her friends and acquaintances populate a world that is as much imagination as it is reality. Within it, they experience dreams and reality, sexual desire and loneliness, triumph and defeat.

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Review:

""Mr. Goyen has the poet's consideration for the exact word, and he has a great sense of laughter."" --New Yorker |""[He] devotes his formidable gifts--his strength of imagery, his rhythmic sense, his glyptic phrasemaking, the intelligence that he showed in Ghost and Flesh and House of Breath--to making his message passionate, copious, and sibylline."" --New York Times Book Review |"'There are simplicity and gentleness and trust and love in the book. Its people are children of God.' Events in the story grow not out of rationally plausible circumstance, but occur simply because the author, exercising the fiat of a fairy tale, waves his magic wand and bides them happen. All seem on the verge of vanishing momentarily if removed from the sustaining medium of Mr. Goyen's evocative prose style. That they do not vanish until the end, when the dream is broken, attests to the efficacy of that style and to the talent of a strangely gifted writer." -Saturday Review

About the Author:

Goyen was born in Trinity, Texas, served in World War II, and lived much of his life in Taos, New Mexico. He wrote numerous short stories, novels, poems, and plays.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0810150395
• ISBN 13: 9780810150393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90