Overview
David Laskin shares the stories of four friendships that have defined the course of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.An illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself, A Common Life is a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life.
In each of the friendships that Laskin portrays, he demonstrates how the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers and how they profoundly affected the course of both.
“A delightful, unusual and often illuminating study of a kind of influences wrought on eight famous American writers by their intimate friendships with each other.” — Louis Auchincloss
The book, A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendships and Influence [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781416576068 in Paperback by David Laskin may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09/06/2007
ISBN-10:
1416576061
ISBN-13:
9781416576068
Pages:
464
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
