| Collation |
xiv, 240 pages ; 22 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index. |
| Contents |
Partners no more : Mark Twain and Bret Harte -- The boy with the interested eyes : Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein -- The slap heard 'round the world : Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize -- Not always a "pleasant tussle": the difficult friendship of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov -- The battle of the "two cultures": C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis -- "Now there's a play": Lillian Hellman and Mary MCarthy -- Les Enfants Terribles: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal -- Not-so-dry bones: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and the perils of literary ambition. |
| Summary |
Profiles eight rivalries between famous writers that offer insight into the means they resorted to in order to defame and compromise each other, such as the tensions between Gore Vidal and Truman Capote and Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. |
| Note |
Gift of Francine Parker and Amanda, Ian and Troy Parker. |
| Subject |
Literary quarrels -- United States -- History.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
031227209X |
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9780312272098 |
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