Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
Autor Charles Portis Editat de Jay Jennings Ilustrat de Mike Reddyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2013 – vârsta de la 18 ani
A varied collection of writing from Charles Portis, a prolific essayist, travel writer, newspaper reporter, and “America’s least known great American novelist,” (New York Times Book Review)
Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is Charles Portis’s “miscellany” –– journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray’s New Moon, published for the first time in this volume. Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis’s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York HeraldTribune and Saturday Evening Post.
Fans of Portis’s droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this addition to his library, and those not yet familiar with his work will find a great introduction to him here. Also included are tributes by accomplished authors including Donna Tartt and Ron Rosenbaum.
Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is Charles Portis’s “miscellany” –– journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray’s New Moon, published for the first time in this volume. Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis’s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York HeraldTribune and Saturday Evening Post.
Fans of Portis’s droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this addition to his library, and those not yet familiar with his work will find a great introduction to him here. Also included are tributes by accomplished authors including Donna Tartt and Ron Rosenbaum.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781468307399
ISBN-10: 1468307398
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 140 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: OVERLOOK DUCKWORTH
ISBN-10: 1468307398
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 140 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: OVERLOOK DUCKWORTH
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Notă biografică
Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker.
Jay Jennings is a freelance writer whose journalism, book reviews and humor have appeared in many national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Oxford American, and Travel &Leisure. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Jay Jennings is a freelance writer whose journalism, book reviews and humor have appeared in many national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Oxford American, and Travel &Leisure. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the San Francisco Chronicle.