It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing

by Clark Davis

Book Overview

William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of such luminaries as Northrop Frye, Truman Capote, Gaston Bachelard, and Joyce Carol Oates. His subject was the land and language of his native East Texas; his desire, to preserve the narrative music through which he came to know his world. Goyen sought to transform the cherished details of his lost boyhood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292767307
• ISBN13: 9780292767300
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"