The Sunlight Dialogues
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 9780811216708
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The Sunlight Dialogues
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 1453203664
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIV DIVDIVJohn Gardner’s sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York town/divDIV /div/divDIVOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word “LOVE” across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical period—and culminates in an unforgettable ending. /divDIV /divDIVBeautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardner’s most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in post–World War II America. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div
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The Sunlight Dialogues
Author: John Gardner
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780099350804
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Author: Barry Silesky
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1565122186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A detailed portrait of one of the twentieth century's most controversial American authors describes John Gardner's turbulent and contradictory life, including his prodigious writing talents and literary success, chaotic personal life, contempt for convention, charisma, drinking problems, and tragic death in a motorcycle accident at the age of forty-nine.
The Wreckage of Agathon
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1453203869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIV DIVDIVA wonderful exploration into the maturation process across the course of human life/divDIV /div/divDIVLaid to waste by drink, Agathon, a seer, is a shell of a man. He sits imprisoned with his apprentice, Peeker, for his presumed involvement in a rebellion against the Spartan tyrant Lykourgos. Confined to a cell, the men produce extraordinary writings that illustrate the stories of their lives and give witness to Agathon’s deterioration and the growth of Peeker from a bashful young apprentice to a self-assured and passionate seer./divDIV /divDIVCaptivating and imaginative, The Wreckage of Agathon is a tribute to author John Gardner’s passion for ancient storytelling and those universal themes that span the course of all human civilization./divDIV /divDIV /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div
Mickelsson's Ghosts
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780811216791
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Nickel Mountain
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780811216784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story set in a small Catskill community in the 1950s: when, at forty-two, the obese, gentle, and anxious Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells -- who is pregnant with the child of a local boy -- it is much more than age that defines the gulf between them. The plot turns on tragic events -- they might be accidents or they might be acts of will -- involving a cast of rural eccentrics that includes a lonely amputee veteran, a religious hysteric (thought by some to be the devil himself), and an itinerant "Goat Lady." Questions of guilt and innocence, and even murder, are ulitmately eclipsed by Henry Soame's quiet discovery of grace. Novelist William H. Gass, a friend and colleague fo the author, has wirtten an introduction that shines new light on the work and career of the much praised and often misunderstood John Gardner.
Conversations with John Gardner
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780878054237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as ""a major contemporary writer."" After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers remarks, ""brought to everything he did a passion that at times bordered on madness.
Freddy's Book
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2010-09-21
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1453203184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIV DIVDIVThe bestselling story of a king’s crusade to vanquish the Devil and to defeat the monster in each of us/divDIV /div/divDIVA visiting lecturer is lured to the remote, gothic mansion of an estranged professor and his only son, who is described as a monster. But soon, the visitor enters an enchanting new world when he begins reading the son’s hidden manuscript. Part history, part myth, the story conjures a sixteenth-century Sweden in which good and evil clash for the ultimate prize. To attain the throne, the protagonist, Gustav Vasa, accepts the Devil’s counsel, but to remain in power and rule justly, he must drive the Devil underground. This sweeping, masterful tale transports us from the wasted mining hills of Dalarna to the frozen northern country of the Lapps—and into the very heart of the struggle over what it means to be human./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div
