Mark Twain by Jerome Loving
Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows Twain from Hannibal to Hawaii to the Holy Land, showing how the southerner transformed himself into a westerner and finally a New Englander. This re-examination of Twain's life is informed by newly discovered archival materials that provide the most complex view of the man and writer to date.
"An informative new biography" New York Review Of Books 20110224 "Funny and informative... This could be the biography of the season." San Francisco Chronicle 20100321 "Excellent... The biographer proves an adept guide." Wall Street Journal 20100327 "Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens works well for the general reader." -- James E. Caron Studies In American Humor 20111101 "Serves up a balanced literary biography of a crowded life." Publishers Weekly 20100215 "Funny, fresh, and informative." Toronto Globe & Mail 20110409 "Provocative and well-reasoned." St. Louis Post-Dispatch 20100321 "A fresh interpretive perspective... Readers will value this portrait of a peripatetic genius traversing a wide swath of American culture." Booklist 20100315 "Bids fair, as they used to say, to be a standard life." New Yorker 20101129
Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is the author of Walt Whitman: Song of Himself and The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser, both from UC Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520252578 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520252578 |
| Title | Mark Twain |
| Author | Jerome Loving |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2010-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 520 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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