The author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, and two critical works, Caroline Gordon produced an impressive--though unjustly neglected--body of work. Her considerable contributions to modern Southern fiction notwithstanding, her life was especially fascinating for two other reasons: the prominent literary circles in which she and her husband Allen Tate moved, and her heroic efforts to "have it all"--marriage, career, and family--at a time when such aspiration was neither touted nor supported. In Caroline ...
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The author of nine novels, three collections of short stories, and two critical works, Caroline Gordon produced an impressive--though unjustly neglected--body of work. Her considerable contributions to modern Southern fiction notwithstanding, her life was especially fascinating for two other reasons: the prominent literary circles in which she and her husband Allen Tate moved, and her heroic efforts to "have it all"--marriage, career, and family--at a time when such aspiration was neither touted nor supported. In Caroline Gordon , Veronica Makowsky captures this life in a biography that is sensitive, engaging, and richly detailed. Perhaps most intriguing is Gordon's story as a Southerner, a woman, and a writer--roles that, for her, were as often mutually exclusive as synergistic. In addition to following the windings of Gordon's life--through New York and Tennessee, through England and Paris--Veronica Makowsky looks closely at Gordon's key works, including Aleck Maury, Sportsman , the much-loved classic for which she is still remembered.
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