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Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
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Description for Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
Hardcover. Katherine Anne Porter revealed only scant facts about her life, and often gave conflicting accounts. Here, the author finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil, fuelled by multiple marriages, and babies lost to miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 871.
From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave conflicting accounts. She maintained, though, that a germ of her own experience lay at the core of everything she wrote. In Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, Darlene Harbour Unrue finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil. With unprecedented access to archival and personal papers, Unrue brings much new information to light. Porter's maternal grandmother was institutionalized; Porter had ... Read more
From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave conflicting accounts. She maintained, though, that a germ of her own experience lay at the core of everything she wrote. In Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, Darlene Harbour Unrue finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil. With unprecedented access to archival and personal papers, Unrue brings much new information to light. Porter's maternal grandmother was institutionalized; Porter had ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781578067770
SKU
V9781578067770
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Ref
99-1
About Unrue
Darlene Harbour Unrue is professor of English at the University of Nevada. She has written several books on Porter, including Understanding Katherine Anne Porter and Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction, and is regarded as an authority on her subject.
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