The Field of Vision
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Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly climaxes his most richly creative period. It is a work of permanent significance and relevance to those who cannot be content with less than a full effort to cope with the symbolic possibilities of the human condition at the present time."--John W. Aldridge One of America's most distinguished authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803257899
ISBN13:9780803257894
Release Date:July 1974
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:252 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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A Writer from another time
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Wright Morris is an American writer from another era, both in terms of his style of writing, his organization of materials, and his orientation toward the world. This book is in the style of High Modernism, but gently applied. Each chapter is written with the voice of a different character, and we return, in the novel, again and again to the character's voices. In the process, we learn more about them, and the central events which displaced them in their world. One is quaint: a kiss stolen on a porch in Nebraska forty years ago. That one kiss set this world on its end, and was a watershed mark in the lives of three people. This book is charmingly quaint, and its repetition, meant to add knowledge, never quite evolves beyond a few central points. That said, for those with the patience for a quiet read, will find much to like in The Field of Vision.
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