Rediscoveries ; informal essays in which well-known novelists rediscover neglected works of fiction by one of their favorite authors / Edited and with an introd. by David Madden.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Crown Publishers, [1971]
Description334 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorMadden, David, 1933- editor.
Other author/creatorMadden, David, 1933- inscriber.
Other author/creatorWarren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 autographer.
Other author/creatorSummers, Hollis, 1916-1987 autographer.
Other author/creatorFord, Jesse Hill autographer.
Other author/creatorGarrett, George, 1929-2008 autographer.
Other author/creatorChappell, Fred, 1936-2024 autographer.
Other author/creatorPercy, Walker, 1916-1990 autographer.
Other author/creatorWright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Contents Introduction -- Robert Penn Warren on Andrew Lytle's The long night -- Evan S. Connell, Jr., on Janet Lewis's The wife of Martin Guerre -- R. V. Cassill on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe -- Wallace Stegner on Glenway Wescott's Good-bye Wisconsin -- Joyce Carol Oates on Harriette Arnow's The dollmaker -- Irwin Shaw on Daniel Fuchs's Homage to Blenholt -- Kay Boyle on Wolfgang Borchert's The man outside -- Hollis Summers on William Maxwell's They came like swallows -- Niven Busch on Marcus Goodrich's Delilah -- George P. Elliott on Ramón Sender's A man's place and Jean Giono's The horseman on the roof -- Anaïs Nin on Mrianne Hauser's A lesson in music -- James B. Hall on Mario Puzo's The dark arena -- Warren Eyster on Humphrey Cobb's Paths of glory -- Harvey Swados on Boris Pilnyak's The Volga falls to the Caspian Sea -- Jesse Hill Ford on Knut Hamsun's Growth of the soil -- George Garrett on Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Land trilogy -- Judson Jerome on Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo (The underdogs) -- Jack Matthews on Norman Douglas's South wind -- Jane Mayhall on Gertrude Stein's Things as they are -- George Lanning on Elizabeth's The pastor's wife -- Brainard Cheney on Caroline Gordon's The malefactors -- Fred Chappell on Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road -- Daniel Stern on William Goyen's The house of breath -- Walker Percy on Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz -- Benedict Kiely on Francis MacManus's Watergate -- Millen Brand on Henry Myer's The utmost island -- David Madden on William Gaddis's The recognitions -- Fiction discussed -- A partial list of other fiction worthy of rediscovery.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Stuart Wright ... David Madden, Aug. 22, 1983, Knoxville" and autographed on p. 17 "Robert Penn Warren," p. 87 "and. again. thanks, Hollis [Summers]," p. 165 "Jesse Hill Ford," p. 171 "George Garrett," p. 245 "Fred Chappell" and p. 262 "Walker Percy." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #165.21. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 305-334.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
LCCN 79147337
Stock number$2.95