O. Alan Weltzien

Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Savage (1915-2003) was one of the intermountain West’s best novelists. His thirteen novels received high critical praise, yet he remained largely unknown by readersO. Alan Weltzien’s insightful and detailed literary biography chronicles the life and work of this neglected but deeply talented novelist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781647790677
• ISBN-10: 1647790670
• Artikelnr.: 63334765

Autorenporträt

O. Alan Weltzien is an author and specialist in American and western American literatures. He worked forty years as a full-time academic, 29 of which were at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon Montana. He has published dozens of articles, two chapbooks, and nine books, including studies or collections of writers Rick Bass, John McPhee, and Norman Maclean. He lives in Montana.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Illustrations
2. Introduction
3. 1 Childhood and Adolescence, 1915–1936
4. 2 The Emergence of Tom Savage: The Early Novels, 1936–53
5. 3 Gay Family Man (1953-67)
6. 4 The High Tide Years (1968–75)
7. 5 Savage at Zenith (1976–81)
8. 6 Limelight and Obscurity (1982–2003)
9. Conclusion
10. Acknowledgments
11. The Novels of Thomas Savage
12. Family Resemblances, Partial Representations
13. Bibliography
14. Index