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A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition Contributor(s): Bellows, Barbara L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807131636 ISBN-13: 9780807131633 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2006 Annotation: The life of a Charleston writer who was also one of the last Carolina aristocrats and the first of the southern modernists. Click for more in this series: Southern Literary Studies (Hardcover) |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2005030876 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.72" W x 9.32" L (1.39 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - South - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2006 pg. 645 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the most successful -- stories, essays, and reviews. Pinckney belonged to a distinguished South Carolina family and often used Charleston as her setting, writing in the tradition of Ellen Glasgow by blending social realism with irony, tragedy, and humor in chronicling the foibles of the South's declining upper class. Barbara L. Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time -- Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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