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Item Details
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A WRITER'S LIFE
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| By: |
Gay Talese |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1407089579 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781407089577 |
| Publisher: |
CORNERSTONE |
| Pub. date: |
15 June, 2010 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
How has Gay Talese found his subjects? How has he gotten them onto the page? What drives him to write? The author answers these questions that combines memory, reflection, explanation and a satisfying obsession. He gives us a picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness involved in getting a story, and getting it right. |
| Synopsis: |
How has Gay Talese found his subjects? How has he gotten them onto the page? What drives him to write? These are some of the questions at the heart of the narrative that combines memory, reflection, explanation and a satisfying obsession. I his trademark prose - precise, beautifully crafted, elegant - Talese traces the paths his passionate interests have made through his life and writing. He talks about first becoming absorbed in issues of race as a student in Alabama, about covering the civil rights struggle and about a recent interracial wedding in Selma. He reflects on the changing American sexual mores he has written about over the last 50 years, and gives an incisive examination of the lives of Lorena and John Bobbitt. He talks about his legendary Esquire profile of Frank Sinatra - judged by the magazine to be the finest in its long history - and about the ordinary men and women whose stories led to some of his most memorable work. And as he delves into the life of a young female Chinese soccer player, we see his consuming interest in the world in its latest manifestation. In these and other recollections and stories, he gives us a fascinating picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness involved in getting a story, and getting it right.Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned - a dazzling book about the nature of writing in one man's life, and of writing itself. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cornerstone Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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