Writers / Barry Gifford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gifford, Barry, 1946- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Seven Stories Press First edtion.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2015]

Summary:

"In Writers: 13 Vignettes, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human, which is to say at their worst: they are liars, frauds, lousy lovers, and drunks. This is a world in which Emily Dickinson remains an unpublished poet, Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Havana, Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed, and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room. In Gifford's house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. We see their obsessions loom large, and none more than a shared needling preoccupation with mortality. And yet these stories, which are meant to be performed as plays, are also tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Gifford asks: What does it means to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist, what defines success and failure?"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781609806491

1609806492

OCLC:

905089340