Elizabeth Hardwick

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

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Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals-such asPartisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books-in which it originally appeared. This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to her childhood Kentucky home and discovers the world of difference within her. A girl's bo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59017-441-8
EAN: 9781590174418
Produktnummer: 15734642
Verlag: New York Review Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 339 KB

Über den Autor

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.