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KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: A Lifeby Givner, JoanBook Club Edition
Book description: NY: Simon & Schuster, 1982 Hardcover with dust jacket. 572, (2) pp. Quarter bound in publisher's burgundy cloth over pink boards, gilt (silver) lettering on spine, author's and subject's initials, gilt, on cover. Pink endpapers. Illustrated with 39 B&W photographs. Includes extensive Notes and Index. This is a new, unopened copy in almost perfect condition, aside from some very minor shelf-wear. FINE+/FINE. In this absorbing and masterly biography Givner reveals the real Porter background.and the details of a life that, even without Porter's embellishments, was as dramatic as any of her stories.Givner has not only provided a rich portrait of an extraordinary woman, but has greatly enhanced our appreciation of Porter's art. - Publisher's Weekly "In Joan Givner's meticulously researched and beautifully written study - it is hard to imagine we will be provided with a better one, at least not before all the persons in the curious story are dead - Katherine Anne Porter and her work stand uncompromisingly clear. We see her whole, as whole as an honest biographer can make a subject so complex and so elusive. " - Doris Grumbach "It would be hard to deal better with Katherine Anne Porter's long life, and her distinguished body of writing, than Joan Givner does in this biography.Givner's perceptiveness, and her toughness of mind, as well as her scholarship, must have recommended her to Miss Porter, who appointed her to the difficult task of writing it. Evidently unable to deal factually with her own life during its course, the austere truth-lover at the center of the dazzling femme fatale must have wanted it all to be set forth clearly in the end. She chose her biographer well. " - Sally Fitzgerald, Editor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O Connor "Reasoned, revelatory, perceptive - this biography will surely become known as the classic account of a remarkable life. " - Chicago Sun Times Listed as on the Outstanding Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, 1982. Book Club Edition. . Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine+/Fine. 8vo (6.5 x 9.5"). Book Club Edition.
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