Holding the road : away from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy
Reuel K. Wilson (Author)
"Having chronicled his parents, Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod, in To the Life of the Silver Harbor, the author now recalls them in other contexts. More broadly, Holding the Road : Away from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, traces the writer's journey, from the early days, spent in his divorced parents' separate households, through the expanding perspectives of adult life. He evokes the people, famous and obscure, relatives, friends, and strangers, who guided and supported him, or, in the last case, piqued his interest. The loci spans the U.S., Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean; the focus is literary and cultural. Along the way, he stops to delineate the singular topography of academe, and its offshoot, academic fiction. The dynamic story he tells incorporates the changing politics and social attitudes of the world he has known."-- Page [4] of cover
Print Book, English, 2018
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, [Charleston, South Carolina], 2018