{"product_id":"conversations-with-shelby-foote-william-c-carter-9780878053865","title":"Conversations with Shelby Foote","description":"Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn't also be applied to the writing of history. In his development, the merging of these special talents has made Foote almost unique in the history of American literature, for few other great modern authors have proved to be master storytellers in both fiction and historical narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eConversations with Shelby Foote\u003c\/i\u003e, this novelist-historian expresses penetrating and often humorous remarks about major modern writers as well as about the classical writers of fiction, plays, poetry, and historical narrative. In one interview Foote explains how Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e were his chief models for writing his history of the Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foote recounts also what it was like to grow up in a small Mississippi town in the first half of the twentieth century and tells how his observations of African Americans and whites of all classes influenced his fiction and history writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These eighteen interviews spanning thirty-seven years not only detail Shelby Foote's exploration of southern history, race relations, and the role of literature in the formation and preservation of a culture but also reveal his evolution into a great narrative artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William C. Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0878053867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780878053865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.08w x 0.77d","brand":"William C. Carter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761049301247,"sku":"9780878053865","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f194f6a0-6869-42b7-bfb2-81580f66f3bd.jpg?v=1706680230","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conversations-with-shelby-foote-william-c-carter-9780878053865","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}