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“Does everything a good literary biography should do…ONE MATCHLESS TIME is…a Faulkner biography for our time.” (Joseph Blotner, Sewanee Review )
“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” (Seattle Times )
“[Parini] has a fellow writer’s appreciation for Faulkner’s language, and expresses that appreciation vividly...His book pays eloquent tribute.” (J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books )
“Irresistible...A new understanding of how [Faulkner] connected his violent, inchoate past with literature’s perdurable future...Reads like a novel.” (Christian Science Monitor )
“A worthy contribution to Faulkner scholarship . . . [Parini’s] deft handling of biographical fact forms a riveting narrative.” (Victor Strandberg, Chicago Tribune )
“Parini’s candid, personal, and extremely readable book is the place to send readers looking for an overview of [Faulkner’s] career.” (William H. Pritchard, Commonweal )
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” (Houston Chronicle )
“The heroic Parini hurries us directly back to THE SOUND AND THE FURY, LIGHT IN AUGUST, and ABSALOM, ABSALOM!” (John Leonard, Harper's Magazine )
“A matchless look at the writer... With his characteristic elegance, Parini captures splendidly Faulkner’s... inestimable literary achievement.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )
“Fine biography... Parini maintains a good balance of the man and his art. [His] analyses ring true.” (Tennessean )
Parini––his prose crystalline, his interpretation proficient––brilliantly illuminates Faulkner’s complex psyche... Engrossing and revelatory, this is a landmark biography. (Booklist (starred review) )
“The time is right for a biography like Jay Parini’s ONE MATCHLESS TIME.” (Wall Street Journal )
“An accomplished novelist and biographer, Parini . . . provides a brisk, engrossing account of Faulkner’s life.” (Oregonian )
“No living literary biographer, and few dead ones, surpass Jay Parini’s skill...[He] renders a formidable giant of letters accessible. (Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer of Mark Twain )
“Told with literary grace, pacing, and narrative drive... Jay Parini’s biography of William Faulkner easily tops all others.” (Frank Lentricchia, Duke University )
“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” (Seattle Times )
“[Parini] has a fellow writer’s appreciation for Faulkner’s language, and expresses that appreciation vividly...His book pays eloquent tribute.” (J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books )
“Irresistible...A new understanding of how [Faulkner] connected his violent, inchoate past with literature’s perdurable future...Reads like a novel.” (Christian Science Monitor )
“A worthy contribution to Faulkner scholarship . . . [Parini’s] deft handling of biographical fact forms a riveting narrative.” (Victor Strandberg, Chicago Tribune )
“Parini’s candid, personal, and extremely readable book is the place to send readers looking for an overview of [Faulkner’s] career.” (William H. Pritchard, Commonweal )
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” (Houston Chronicle )
“The heroic Parini hurries us directly back to THE SOUND AND THE FURY, LIGHT IN AUGUST, and ABSALOM, ABSALOM!” (John Leonard, Harper's Magazine )
“A matchless look at the writer... With his characteristic elegance, Parini captures splendidly Faulkner’s... inestimable literary achievement.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution )
“Fine biography... Parini maintains a good balance of the man and his art. [His] analyses ring true.” (Tennessean )
Parini––his prose crystalline, his interpretation proficient––brilliantly illuminates Faulkner’s complex psyche... Engrossing and revelatory, this is a landmark biography. (Booklist (starred review) )
“The time is right for a biography like Jay Parini’s ONE MATCHLESS TIME.” (Wall Street Journal )
“An accomplished novelist and biographer, Parini . . . provides a brisk, engrossing account of Faulkner’s life.” (Oregonian )
“No living literary biographer, and few dead ones, surpass Jay Parini’s skill...[He] renders a formidable giant of letters accessible. (Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and biographer of Mark Twain )
“Told with literary grace, pacing, and narrative drive... Jay Parini’s biography of William Faulkner easily tops all others.” (Frank Lentricchia, Duke University )
Présentation de l'éditeur
William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources -- including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulkner's daughter and lovers -- Jay Parini has crafted a biography that delves into the mystery of this gifted and troubled writer. His Faulkner is an extremely talented, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage who somehow transcends his limitations. Parini weaves the tragedies and triumphs of Faulkner's life in with his novels, serving up a biography that's as engaging as it is insightful.
