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The Shadow In The Garden: A Biographer's Tale hardcover english - 27/Feb/18 Details

ISBN 13
9781472153135
ISBN 10
1472153138
Book Subtitle
A Biographer's Tale
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Book Description
The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers' lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer of James Joyce and Atlas's professor during a transformative year at Oxford. We get to know the author's first subject, the "self-doomed" poet Delmore Schwartz; a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the "tall trees," as Mary McCarthy described them, cut down now, Atlas writes, by the "merciless pruning of mortality"); and, of course, the elusive Bellow, "a metaphysician of the ordinary." Atlas revisits the lives and work of the classical biographers: the Renaissance writers of what were then called "lives," Samuel Johnson and the "meshugenah" Boswell, among them. In what amounts to a pocket history of his own literary generation, Atlas celebrates the luminaries of contemporary literature and the labor of those who hope to catch a glimpse of one of them - "as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed up in a crowd."
Editorial Review
The biographer slips into another's skin; he is meant to assume someone else's unconscious. The idea is to know his subject better than that subject knows himself. By definition, the biographer erases himself in the process. Writing of and around his books, Atlas triumphantly returns that fugitive figure - part sleuth, part scholar, part analyst, part medium, an emissary between worlds - to the page. The result is a sparkling, lyrical, tender, and unexpectedly suspenseful take on a life in literature. "There is no such thing as Biography School," Atlas laments at one juncture. There is now. * Stacy Schiff * (An) unfailingly acute memoir of the biographer's art... entertainingly unique in its particulars - and an inspiration for compulsive biographers everywhere * the Observer *
About the Author
JAMES ATLAS is the author of Bellow: A Biography, Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the memoir My Life in the Middle Ages. The founder of the Lipper/Viking Penguin Lives series and a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine for many years. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Vanity Fair, and many journals. He lives in New York City.
Language
English
Author
James Atlas
Publication Date
27/Feb/18
Number of Pages
400

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