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Dreamer's Journey
Robert M. Greenfield
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Description for Dreamer's Journey
Hardback. Num Pages: 465 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 821.
Dreamer's Journey: The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch is the first comprehensive study of the enigmatic, erratically brilliant novelist and poet. It explores his published and unpublished writings, his troubled personal life, the conflicts arising from his homosexuality, his wanderings as a kind of permanent expatriate, and his preoccupation with reinventing his persona and creating an imaginary and highly dramatic past for himself. An expert dissembler, much in Prokosch's life was false and theatrical. His activities as a forger interweave with a long history of lies and deceptions. Most of Voices: A Memoir, his last published work, is pure ... Read more
Dreamer's Journey: The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch is the first comprehensive study of the enigmatic, erratically brilliant novelist and poet. It explores his published and unpublished writings, his troubled personal life, the conflicts arising from his homosexuality, his wanderings as a kind of permanent expatriate, and his preoccupation with reinventing his persona and creating an imaginary and highly dramatic past for himself. An expert dissembler, much in Prokosch's life was false and theatrical. His activities as a forger interweave with a long history of lies and deceptions. Most of Voices: A Memoir, his last published work, is pure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
465
Condition
New
Number of Pages
465
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491401
SKU
V9781611491401
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About Robert M. Greenfield
Robert M. Greenfield is professor emeritus at Lake Forest College.
Reviews for Dreamer's Journey
Greenfield, an author of articles on Lionel Trilling, Ludwig Lewisohn, and Charles Horton Colley, discusses the life and writings of American poet and novelist Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989), who strove to conceal his real life and self from the world. Greenfield draws on archives and interviews with family members, classmates, editors, publishers, colleagues, and lovers to separate Prokosch's real life from ... Read more