Double vision : a novel / / George Garrett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818448703321
• Autore: Garrett George <1929-2008.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-8173-8187-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Collana: Deep South books
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Biography as a literary form; Literary quarrels; College teachers; Biographers; Authors
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: BEGINNING; ONE; TWO; THREE; FOUR; FIVE; SIX; SEVEN; EIGHT; NINE; TEN; MIDDLE; ELEVEN; TWELVE; THIRTEEN; FOURTEEN; FIFTEEN; SIXTEEN; SEVENTEEN; EIGHTEEN; NINETEEN; TWENTY; TWENTY-ONE; TWENTY-TWO; TWENTY-THREE; ENDING; TWENTY-FOUR; TWENTY-FIVE; TWENTY-SIX; TWENTY-SEVEN; BEGIN AGAIN; TWENTY-EIGHT; POSTSCRIPT
• Sommario/riassunto: A shotgun marriage of fact and fiction by one of the most highly regarded writers and teachers of our time. A writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as a result of a neurological disorder, is asked to review a recent, first biography of the late Peter Taylor, a renowned writer who has been his long-time friend and neighbor in Charlottesville. Reflecting on their relationship, Garrett conceives of a character-not unlike himself-a writer in his early 70s, ill and suffering from double vision, named Frank Toomer. He gives Toomer a neighbor, a distin