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It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer's apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson. American Notebooks is much more than a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer. An album of exquisitely drawn literary portraits of companions, intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists and social activists of the period--Edmund and Elena Wilson; Mary Meigs; Maud Maugan; Barbara Deming; Truman Capote; Jacques Hebert, her first Quebec publisher, then senator; and many others--it also introduces many of the real life personalities who have inspired her fictional characters.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: American Notebooks
• Subtitle: A Writer's Journey
• Author: Marie-Claire Blais
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780889223585
• ISBN: 0889223580
• ID: 04754930
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Weight: 255 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. October 1996

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