Published by Harper Collins, 2004
ISBN 10: 0066210720 ISBN 13: 9780066210728
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Jay Parini, the author of highly praised biographies of Robert Frost and John Steinbeck, has now written an engaging biography of one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. One Matchless Time is a sympathetic, sweeping evocation of William Faulkner's life and work. From his birth in 1897 in Mississippi to his death sixty-five years later, Faulkner spent almost his entire life on this one small patch of land, the "significant soil" from which all his fiction grew. Jay Parini paints an intimate picture of Faulkner's Mississippi world and shows how the artist transformed this raw material into Yoknapatawpha County, a place of pure imagination. Between 1928 and 1942, during what Faulkner called his "one matchless time," a period of wild inspiration when characters and stories came to him mysteriously and in abundance, he published more than half a dozen masterpieces, including the novels The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; The Wild Palms; Go Down, Moses; and The Hamlet. This is an astonishing achievement without equal in American literature. Parini, who has taught Faulkner's work to students for nearly thirty years, vividly brings to life this writer's complex fictional world in the context of his life, using the one to illuminate the other. He uses letters and memoirs unavailable to earlier biographers as well as interviews he had with Faulkner's daughter and several of his lovers. His William Faulkner is an immensely gifted, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage, but someone who rose above his limitations to become a figure of major importance on the stage of world literature. One Matchless Time is a magnificent biography, profound, thought-provoking, meticulously researched, elegantly composed, and a tribute to the genius of its subject. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by George Braziller, 2005
ISBN 10: 0807615463 ISBN 13: 9780807615461
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Used - Very Good. 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
Published by Canongate Books, 2012
ISBN 10: 1847679803 ISBN 13: 9781847679802
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condition: new.
Published by George Braziller, 2005
ISBN 10: 0807615471 ISBN 13: 9780807615478
Seller: Ashworth Books, Sidney, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition.
Published by George Braziller, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 0807615471 ISBN 13: 9780807615478
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 8.5 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; 130 pages.
Published by Yale University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0300144563 ISBN 13: 9780300144567
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, 2004
ISBN 10: 0684314460 ISBN 13: 9780684314464
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 24 pages. 11.50x8.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.