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The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997
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Description for The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997
Hardcover. This book completes and complements the first volume of the letters and life of James Dickey. Picking up where the previous volume left off, it chronicles Dickey's career from the success of his novel "Deliverance" in 1970 until his death in 1997. Editor(s): Ness, Gordon Van. Num Pages: 592 pages, 13 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: BGA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1084.
This book completes and complements the first volume of the letters and life of James Dickey. Picking up where the previous volume left off, The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997 chronicles Dickey's career from the unparalleled success of his novel Deliverance in 1970 through his poetic experimentation in such books as The Eye Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy and Puella until his death in 1997. A prolific correspondent, Dickey tried to write at least three letters a day, and these letters provide a unique way for Gordon Van Ness to portray the vast ... Read more
This book completes and complements the first volume of the letters and life of James Dickey. Picking up where the previous volume left off, The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997 chronicles Dickey's career from the unparalleled success of his novel Deliverance in 1970 through his poetic experimentation in such books as The Eye Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy and Puella until his death in 1997. A prolific correspondent, Dickey tried to write at least three letters a day, and these letters provide a unique way for Gordon Van Ness to portray the vast ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826215727
SKU
V9780826215727
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About
Gordon Van Ness is Professor of English at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. He is the editor of Striking In: The Early Notebooks of James Dickey and The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1942-1969, both available from the University of Missouri Press.
Reviews for The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997
"The letters are an important cataloging of American literary history....The commentaries that Van Ness Intersperses throughout the text make The One Voice of James Dickey far more than a collection of letters. The work is astute biography and adept scholarship and critical analysis....The art is not all Dickey's; it represents Van Ness's genius as well, a moving, well-written and researched ... Read more