The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto
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"He was precocious, alert, intelligent, brash, challenging, irreverent, literary, self-conscious, insecure, often ostentatiously crude, sometimes insufferable," Wallace Stegner says of Bernard DeVoto, who, in the words of a childhood acquaintance, was also "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Between the disagreeable boy and the literary lion, a life unfolds, full of comedy and drama, as told in this definitive biography, which brings...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803292848
ISBN13:9780803292840
Release Date:March 2001
Publisher:Bison
Length:496 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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A worthy biography written with a novelist's flair
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The Uneasy Chair is a fine, friendly, but not uncritical, biography of one Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), by another, his colleague and fellow westerner Wallace Stegner (1909-1993). Stegner masterfully handles DeVoto's philosophy of literature and his unrequited professional yearnings. In no time the reader wonders why DeVoto failed to understand that his gift lay in nonfiction and not in novel writing. Stegner merely sketches DeVoto's family life, but DeVoto's personality is always on display, especially his compulsiveness and insecurity, the latter of which was so serious that it sporadically verged on panic.
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