Double Vision : A Novel.

By: Garrett, George PMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Deep South BksPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (190 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817381875Subject(s): Authors -- Fiction | Biographers -- Fiction | Biography as a literary form -- Fiction | College teachers -- Fiction | Literary quarrels -- FictionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Double Vision : A NovelDDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3557Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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 distinguished short story writer named Aubrey Carver.   As the real George Garrett and Peter Taylor are replaced by two very different and imaginary writers, the story becomes a wise and insightful exploration of American literary life, the art of biography, the comical rivalries among writers and academics, notions of success, and the knotty relationship of art to life, fact to fiction, and life to death. Double Vision is a witty tour de force and an elegy for a gifted generation of writers.
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Intro -- 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.

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 distinguished short story writer named Aubrey Carver.   As the real George Garrett and Peter Taylor are replaced by two very different and imaginary writers, the story becomes a wise and insightful exploration of American literary life, the art of biography, the comical rivalries among writers and academics, notions of success, and the knotty relationship of art to life, fact to fiction, and life to death. Double Vision is a witty tour de force and an elegy for a gifted generation of writers.

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