Burning boy : the life and work of Stephen Crane / Paul Auster.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 783 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250235831
- 1250235839
- Life and work of Stephen Crane
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | CRANE, S. A934 | Available | 33111010601074 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | CRANE, S. A934 | Available | 33111010744783 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A LOS ANGELES TIMES Book Prize Winner
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.
With Burning Boy , celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage , who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.
Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville's most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death.
In Burning Boy , Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane's creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences--the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"A landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane"-- Provided by publisher.