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In Faulkner's Shadow - A Memoir (Hardcover): Lawrence Wells In Faulkner's Shadow - A Memoir (Hardcover)
Lawrence Wells
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that. In 1972, Wells married Dean Faulkner, the only niece of William Faulkner, and slowly found himself lost in the Faulkner mystique. While attempting to rebel against the overwhelming influence of his in-laws, Wells had a front-row seat to the various rivalries that sprouted between his wife and the members of her family, each of whom dealt in different ways with the challenges and expectations of carrying on a literary tradition. Beyond the family stories, Wells recounts the blossoming of a literary renaissance in Oxford, Mississippi, after William Faulkner's death. Both the town of Oxford and the larger literary world were at a loss as to who would be Faulkner's successor. During these uncertain times, Wells and his wife cofounded Yoknapatawpha Press and the quarterly literary journal the Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review. In his dual role as publisher and author, Wells encountered and befriended Larry Brown, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, and many other writers. He became both participant and observer to the deeds and misdeeds of a rowdy collection of talented authors living in Faulkner's shadow. Full of personal insights, this memoir features unforgettable characters and exciting behind-the-scene moments that reveal much about modern American letters and the southern literary tradition. It is also a love story about a courtship and marriage, and an ode to Dean Faulkner Wells and her family.

William Faulkner - The Cofield Collection (Paperback): Jack Cofield William Faulkner - The Cofield Collection (Paperback)
Jack Cofield; Edited by Lawrence Wells; Introduction by Carvel Collins
R1,204 R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Save R237 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bohemian (Paperback): Lawrence Wells Bohemian (Paperback)
Lawrence Wells
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ghosts of Rowan Oak - School Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Dean Faulkner Wells The Ghosts of Rowan Oak - School Edition (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Dean Faulkner Wells; Introduction by Willie Morris; Supplement by Lawrence Wells
R301 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain" (Sunday Times, London), Morris goes beyond "a simple retelling of what has happened to him . . . to explain in large part what was happening in the forties, fifites, and sixties" (New Republic).

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