Double vision : a novel / George Garrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, George, 1929-2008.

Series:

Deep South books.

Deep South books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography as a literary form--Fiction.

Biography as a literary form.

Literary quarrels--Fiction.

Literary quarrels.

College teachers--Fiction.

College teachers.

Biographers--Fiction.

Biographers.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A shotgun marriage of fact and fiction by one of the most highly regarded writers and teachers of our time. A writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as a result of a neurological disorder, is asked to review a recent, first biography of the late Peter Taylor, a renowned writer who has been his long-time friend and neighbor in Charlottesville. Reflecting on their relationship, Garrett conceives of a character-not unlike himself-a writer in his early 70s, ill and suffering from double vision, named Frank Toomer. He gives Toomer a neighbor, a distin

Contents:

BEGINNING; ONE; TWO; THREE; FOUR; FIVE; SIX; SEVEN; EIGHT; NINE; TEN; MIDDLE; ELEVEN; TWELVE; THIRTEEN; FOURTEEN; FIFTEEN; SIXTEEN; SEVENTEEN; EIGHTEEN; NINETEEN; TWENTY; TWENTY-ONE; TWENTY-TWO; TWENTY-THREE; ENDING; TWENTY-FOUR; TWENTY-FIVE; TWENTY-SIX; TWENTY-SEVEN; BEGIN AGAIN; TWENTY-EIGHT; POSTSCRIPT

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8187-2

OCLC:

609839901