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The Resource Alice Adams : portrait of a writer, Carol Sklenicka
Alice Adams : portrait of a writer, Carol Sklenicka
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The item Alice Adams : portrait of a writer, Carol Sklenicka represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Alice Adams : portrait of a writer, Carol Sklenicka represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer has the heartbeat of one American woman's life in the twentieth century. It tells an intimate story of how Alice Adams-white, privileged, talented-endured a lonely childhood as a child in the racially distressed South and came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. Always a rebel in good-girl's clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in the Fifties. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. Once celebrated as "America's Colette," Adams is now almost forgotten. With the same meticulous research and vivid storytelling she brought to Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, Sklenicka's biography of Alice Adams connects the events of Adams's life to the events depicted in her stories. Sklenicka interviewed scores of Adams's friends and acquaintances and spent months, no years, with her letters and manuscripts. By delving into Adams's personal life, she shows how writing saved Adams from sorrows and how life served her writing. In Ploughshares, Jason Appel praised Sklenicka "one of the most astute literary critics of our time" for her weaving of "perceptive analysis of Carver's stories into her narrative of his life" and for her "even-handed presentation of the leading controversies in Carver scholarship." Though this biography never confuses fact and fiction, it allows them brighten and clarify one another"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 580 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Saved by her dolls (1926, and maternal history)
- Agatha and Nic (paternal history)
- The family romance (1926-1931)
- Depressions (1931-1937)
- Girls (1937-1940)
- North and south (1940-1943)
- Rumors of war at Radcliffe (1943-1945)
- Cocktail of dreams (1946-1947)
- Impersonators (1947-1948)
- Frustrated ambitions (1948-1950)
- Family of three (1950-1957)
- Max Steele (1958)
- Freedom (1958-1961)
- Alone (1961-1963)
- Careless love (1963-1966)
- Robert Kendall McNie (1964-1969)
- Disinherited (1969-1973)
- Editors and friends (1973-1976)
- "Very Colette" (1976-1979)
- Continuing achievement (1980-1981)
- A fateful age (1981-1983)
- Superior women (1984-1985)
- Fame and fortune (1986-1987)
- Things fall apart (1987-1989)
- "The book of Bob" (1990-1992)
- Sick (1992-1995)
- the age card (1995-1999)
- Afterlife
- Isbn
- 9781451621310
- Label
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Title
- Alice Adams
- Title remainder
- portrait of a writer
- Statement of responsibility
- Carol Sklenicka
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer has the heartbeat of one American woman's life in the twentieth century. It tells an intimate story of how Alice Adams-white, privileged, talented-endured a lonely childhood as a child in the racially distressed South and came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. Always a rebel in good-girl's clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in the Fifties. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. Once celebrated as "America's Colette," Adams is now almost forgotten. With the same meticulous research and vivid storytelling she brought to Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, Sklenicka's biography of Alice Adams connects the events of Adams's life to the events depicted in her stories. Sklenicka interviewed scores of Adams's friends and acquaintances and spent months, no years, with her letters and manuscripts. By delving into Adams's personal life, she shows how writing saved Adams from sorrows and how life served her writing. In Ploughshares, Jason Appel praised Sklenicka "one of the most astute literary critics of our time" for her weaving of "perceptive analysis of Carver's stories into her narrative of his life" and for her "even-handed presentation of the leading controversies in Carver scholarship." Though this biography never confuses fact and fiction, it allows them brighten and clarify one another"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sklenicka, Carol
- Dewey number
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- 813/.54
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3551.D324
- LC item number
- Z86 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Adams, Alice
- Adams, Alice
- Women authors, American
- Women authors, American
- Label
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer, Carol Sklenicka
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Saved by her dolls (1926, and maternal history) -- Agatha and Nic (paternal history) -- The family romance (1926-1931) -- Depressions (1931-1937) -- Girls (1937-1940) -- North and south (1940-1943) -- Rumors of war at Radcliffe (1943-1945) -- Cocktail of dreams (1946-1947) -- Impersonators (1947-1948) -- Frustrated ambitions (1948-1950) -- Family of three (1950-1957) -- Max Steele (1958) -- Freedom (1958-1961) -- Alone (1961-1963) -- Careless love (1963-1966) -- Robert Kendall McNie (1964-1969) -- Disinherited (1969-1973) -- Editors and friends (1973-1976) -- "Very Colette" (1976-1979) -- Continuing achievement (1980-1981) -- A fateful age (1981-1983) -- Superior women (1984-1985) -- Fame and fortune (1986-1987) -- Things fall apart (1987-1989) -- "The book of Bob" (1990-1992) -- Sick (1992-1995) -- the age card (1995-1999) -- Afterlife
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 580 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781451621310
- Lccn
- 2019024836
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1085151036
- 1877158
- Label
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer, Carol Sklenicka
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Saved by her dolls (1926, and maternal history) -- Agatha and Nic (paternal history) -- The family romance (1926-1931) -- Depressions (1931-1937) -- Girls (1937-1940) -- North and south (1940-1943) -- Rumors of war at Radcliffe (1943-1945) -- Cocktail of dreams (1946-1947) -- Impersonators (1947-1948) -- Frustrated ambitions (1948-1950) -- Family of three (1950-1957) -- Max Steele (1958) -- Freedom (1958-1961) -- Alone (1961-1963) -- Careless love (1963-1966) -- Robert Kendall McNie (1964-1969) -- Disinherited (1969-1973) -- Editors and friends (1973-1976) -- "Very Colette" (1976-1979) -- Continuing achievement (1980-1981) -- A fateful age (1981-1983) -- Superior women (1984-1985) -- Fame and fortune (1986-1987) -- Things fall apart (1987-1989) -- "The book of Bob" (1990-1992) -- Sick (1992-1995) -- the age card (1995-1999) -- Afterlife
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 580 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781451621310
- Lccn
- 2019024836
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1085151036
- 1877158
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