The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316101192 ISBN 13: 9780316101196

Publisher: Little Brown, 1986

Synopsis

Includes the best reviews, essays, and articles of the Club's "News," including pieces by Heywood Brown, Maxwell Perkins, John Gunther, Robert Penn Warren, and Barbara Tuchman

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Published in celebration of BOMC's 60th anniversary, this is an attractive grab bag of literary snippets culled from the club's monthly bulletins. The arrangement, by decade, is somewhat haphazard, with authors turning up not always in connection with their best work but rather as they are chosen by the club. There are, however, some real rewards for the patient dipper among the "reviews," brief portraits and interviews: Robert Penn Warren on William Styron, for instance, Paul Horgan on Thornton Wilder, Glenway Westcott on Katherine Ann Porter, a delightful self-interview by Gore Vidal that makes almost everything else in the book seem a shade stuffy, a model reply by Dorothy Canfield Fisher to an earnest mother who complained about allowing The Hucksters (a now forgotten club choice) into her home. One is struck by how sturdily Henry Seidel Canby's estimates stand up over the years, sometimes in opposition to other members of the board. Few depths are plumbed in the collection, and more difficult authorsGaddis, Pynchon, even Barthare notably absent, but it is ultimately rather comforting to see the continuity of urbane taste displayed over the decades.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0316101192
• ISBN 13: 9780316101196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335
• Editor: Silverman Al