Melville (Lives) - Hardcover
Herman Melville's goal as an author was to become one of the 'thought-divers that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.' The source of this rather melodramatic approach to the art and craft of writing was a life that encompassed the whaling era and the Civil War and included time spent in Polynesia, where he was flogged, fled from cannibals, joined a mutiny, and frolicked with naked islanders. The result was a body of work that ranged from popular fiction like Typee, to the dreadful gothic romance Pierre, to the classic Moby Dick. Elizabeth Hardwick provides a compelling, multifaceted portrait of Melville, who, although less successful in his own lifetime, is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists and poets.
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About the Author:
Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of Sight Readings, Bartleby in Manhattan, A View of My Own, and Seduction and Betrayal, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Her novel Sleepless Nights was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Gold Medal for Belles-Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 029764596X
- ISBN 13 9780297645962
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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