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Nicholas Delbanco, the late John Gardner's friend and literary executor, introduces Stillness , a short novel that Gardner did not intend to publish, and Shadows , a novel-in-progess. ``Written in haste, and shelved,'' Stillness , which depicts the stormy marriage of Martin Orrick, a famous silver-haired writer of ``dark vision,'' and his musician wife Joan, was ``undertaken . . . as a process of therapy'' by Gardner and his first wife. The unfinished Shadows a text and seven fragmentsis a dense, philosophical detective story set in Carbondale, Illinois. The introduction is informative and the volume as a whole certainly of biographical interest to Gardner scholars; but the general reader who has admired Gardner's inventive fiction may be disappointed in these unpolished works. Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
Nicholas Delbanco, the late John Gardner's friend and literary executor, introduces Stillness , a short novel that Gardner did not intend to publish, and Shadows , a novel-in-progess. ``Written in haste, and shelved,'' Stillness , which depicts the stormy marriage of Martin Orrick, a famous silver-haired writer of ``dark vision,'' and his musician wife Joan, was ``undertaken . . . as a process of therapy'' by Gardner and his first wife. The unfinished Shadows a text and seven fragmentsis a dense, philosophical detective story set in Carbondale, Illinois. The introduction is informative and the volume as a whole certainly of biographical interest to Gardner scholars; but the general reader who has admired Gardner's inventive fiction may be disappointed in these unpolished works. Janet Wiehe, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
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Hardback Editions
February 1987 : Hardback
| Title: Stillness and Shadows Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-436-17253-4 / 978-0-436-17253-3 (UK edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1986 : Hardback
| Title: STILLNESS AND SHADOWS Author(s): John Gardner ISBN: 0-394-54402-1 / 978-0-394-54402-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
1987 : Paperback
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