Mark Twain: A Life Contributor(s): Powers, Ron (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743249011 ISBN-13: 9780743249010 Publisher: Free Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2006 Annotation: In the most important narrative biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens in half a century, a Pulitzer-Prize winner brings to life the astonishing man behind one of America's most famous sons. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | United States - General |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 1.34" H x 6.1" W x 9.23" L (2.05 lbs) 736 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - South |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: New York Times 07/23/2006 pg. 20 Entertainment Weekly 01/30/2009 pg. 101 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ron Powers's tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain's voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's, as he grew from a Mississippi River boyhood in the days of the frontier, to a Wild-West journalist during the Gold Rush, to become the king of the eastern establishment and a global celebrity as America became an international power. Along the way, Mark Twain keenly observed the characters and voices that filled the growing country, and left us our first authentically American literature. Ron Powers's magnificent biography offers the definitive life of the founding father of our culture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Powers, Ron: - Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and critic, has studied and written about Mark Twain for many years. He is the author of ten books, including Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and the coauthor of two, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont. |
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