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The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale

The biographer—so often in the shadows, kibitzing, casting doubt, proving facts—comes to the stage in this funny, poignant, endearing tale of how writers’ lives get documented. James Atlas, the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, takes us back to his own childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers’ lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer of James Joyce and Atlas’s professor during a transformative year at Oxford. We get to know Atlas’s first subject, the “self-doomed” poet Delmore Schwartz. And we are introduced to a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the “tall pines,” as Mary McCarthy once called them, cut down now, according to Atlas, by the “merciless pruning of mortality”) and, of course, the elusive Bellow, “a metaphysician of the ordinary.” Atlas revisits the lives and works of the classical biographers, the Renaissance writers of what were then called “lives,” Samuel Johnson and the obsessive Boswell, and the Victorian masters Mrs. Gaskell and Thomas Carlyle. And in what amounts to a pocket history of his own literary generation, Atlas celebrates the biographers who hoped to glimpse an image of them—“as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed up in a crowd.”(With black-and-white illustrations throughout)

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 1101871695

 

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The Shadow in the Garden by James Atlas: 9780525431824
The Shadow in the Garden is a brutally honest look at the ways in which our lives are shaped—both with and without our knowledge—by the lives of others.” —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire [Praise for the audiobook edition] “A listener’s treat . . . Expertly read by George Newbern . . .
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The Shadow in the Garden is a brutally honest look at the ways in which our lives are shaped—both with and without our knowledge—by the lives of others.” —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire [Praise for the audiobook edition] “A listener's treat . . . Expertly read by George Newbern . . .
The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale by James Atlas
James Atlas’s The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale is a wonderful, amicable read — one of those books that keep you turning pages, ready for the next delectable anecdote, sharp observation, or occasional revelation. The young Delmore Schwartz, writing in his journal: “Snubbed by waitress, consoled by sandwiches.”
The Shadow in the Garden by Braden McElroy
The Shadow Garden is an amazing 48 page experience. Children might enjoy it as an adventure. Older readers might consider the trip into Spirithaven as an internal journey toward healing. Many live as though they are existing under a gray cloudless sky when depressed or grieving over events of which they have no control.
The Shadow in the Garden by James Atlas | Penguin Random
The Shadow in the Garden is a brutally honest look at the ways in which our lives are shaped—both with and without our knowledge—by the lives of others.” —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire [Praise for the audiobook edition] “A listener's treat . . . Expertly read by George Newbern . . .
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The biographer so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts here comes to the stage. James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers' lives.
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THE SHADOW IN THE GARDEN. By James Atla s. June 19, 1995. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. The New Yorker, June 26, 1995 P. 74. JOURNALS about writer's account of compiling ...
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THE SHADOW IN THE GARDEN A BIOGRAPHER'S TALE. by James Atlas ... Through it all, Obama remained determined to serve with grace and help others through initiatives like the White House garden and her campaign to fight childhood obesity. And even though she deems herself “not a political person,” she shares frank thoughts about the 2016 election.
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“The Shadow in the Rose Garden” left me utterly dumbfounded. Not because of the turn of events per se, but because of what D. H. Lawrence was capable to incite within me, how he made me feel. The characters swift for the reader to discover them. At first, you tend to dislike enormously the selfish, self centered and irritating husband.

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