Alfred and Guinevere by Schuyler, James

Alfred and Guinevere (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322493)

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Alfred and Guinevere by Schuyler, James

Alfred and Guinevere

$16.95
Alfred and Guinevere by Schuyler, James

Alfred and Guinevere

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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One of the finest American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, James Schuyler was at the same time a remarkable novelist. Alfred and Guinevere are two children who have been sent by their parents to spend the summer at their grandmother's house in the country. There they puzzle over their parents' absence and their relatives' habits, play games and pranks, make friends and fall out with them, spat and make up. Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention. The reader discovers that beneath the book's apparently guileless surface lies a very sophisticated awareness of the complicated ways in which words work to define the often perilous boundaries between fantasy and reality, innocence and knowledge.

Author: James Schuyler
ISBN-10: 0940322498
ISBN-13: 9780940322493
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2000
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.01h x 4.97w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/04/2001 pg. 32
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2001 pg. 459
By James Schuyler
By James Schuyler
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James Schuyler (1923-1991) was a preeminent figure in the celebrated New York School of poets. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and near Buffalo, New York. After World War II, he made his way to Italy, where he served for a time asW.H. Auden's secretary. His books include three novels, A Nest of Ninnies (written with John Ashbery), Alfred and Guinevere, and What's For Dinner, as well as numerous volumes of poetry.

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, includingSelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

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