An autobiographical novel / Kenneth Rexroth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Contributor:

Hamalian, Linda.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revived modern classic

A Revived modern classic

A New Directions paperbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Rexroth, Kenneth.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 542 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Revised and expanded / edited by Linda Hamalian.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 1991.

Summary:

When the poet Kenneth Rexroth died in 1982, he left behind a sequel to An Autobiographical Novel (1966). His published memoir - all 365 pages of it - stopped at 1927, when the twenty-two-year-old writer and his first wife, Andree, were about to settle in California. Now revised and expanded, An Autobiographical Novel includes reminiscences that cover another twenty years of literary life and two more marriages. Linda Hamalian, author of A Life of Kenneth Rexroth (W. W. Norton, 1991), sifted through more than 300 pages of raw tape transcriptions. Weighing fact against fictions (Rexroth loved a tall tale and relished gossip), Hamalian has prepared a valuable index that identifies obscure allusions and the real people who figured in Rexroth's emotionally tumultuous life. It adds up to a very good read," she says. "I am willing to bet a nice chunk of money that readers will wish Rexroth had been able to go on and on loosening his talk-tapes." "

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0811211797

9780811211796

OCLC:

23462666