"He was precocious, alert, intelligent, brash, challenging, irreverent, literary, self-conscious, insecure, often ostentatiously crude, sometimes insufferable," Wallace Stegner says of Bernard DeVoto, who, in the words of a childhood acquaintance, was also "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Between the disagreeable boy and the literary lion, a life unfolds, full of comedy and drama, as told in this definitive biography, which brings together two exemplary American men of letters. Both men were, as Stegner ...
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"He was precocious, alert, intelligent, brash, challenging, irreverent, literary, self-conscious, insecure, often ostentatiously crude, sometimes insufferable," Wallace Stegner says of Bernard DeVoto, who, in the words of a childhood acquaintance, was also "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Between the disagreeable boy and the literary lion, a life unfolds, full of comedy and drama, as told in this definitive biography, which brings together two exemplary American men of letters. Both men were, as Stegner writes, "novelists by intention, teachers by necessity, and historians by the sheer compulsion of the region that shaped us." From this unique vantage point, Stegner follows DeVoto's path from his beloved but not particularly congenial Utah to the even less congenial Harvard where, galvanized by the disregard of the aesthetes around him, he commenced a career that, over three and a half decades, would embrace nearly every sort of literary enterprise: from modestly successful novels to prize-winning Western histories, from the editorship of the Saturday Review to a famously combative, long-running monthly column in Harper's, "The Easy Chair." A nuanced portrait of a stormy literary life, Stegner's biography of DeVoto is also a window on the tumultuous world of American letters in the twentieth century.
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. Octavo. Light brown cloth covered boards thirdbound in a darker brown cloth backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a very light bumping at the tail of the spine and a trace of rubbing at the very tips of some of the book's corners. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Publisher's magenta colored remainder spray on the lower edge of the textblock-pages are otherwise all clean, white, and crisp. 464 pages. Illustrated with a few sections of photographs. Dust Jacket-about 1/4" of the head of the spine has been chipped away and there's some rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the outside corners. 1/32" chip in the very tip of each of the two front outside corners. Light evidence of handling on the white rear cover. Original $12.50 price on the upper corner of the front inside flap. Shows all indicators of being a first printing, but some fool has run a black marker over the identifying line on the copyright page.
