Overview
David Laskin shares the stories of four friendships that have defined the course of American Literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, and Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.An illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself, A Common Life is a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life. In each of the friendships that Laskin portrays, he demonstrates how the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers and how they profoundly affected the course of both. "A delightful, unusual and often illuminating study of a kind of influences wrought on eight famous American writers by their intimate friendships with each other." -- Louis Auchincloss
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781416576068
- ISBN-10: 1416576061
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish Date: September 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.19 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.27 pounds
- Page Count: 464
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