A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an EpilogueA memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio Praise for A Story Teller's Story--- "The American Portrait of the Artist." -Charles Baxter "Probably unequaled . . . for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction. . . . A book which should be read by every intelligent American." ---New York Times "In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America." ---The Nation "The voice of the soliloquist . . . amplifies the drama of A Story Teller's Story, as does the persistent theme of escape, from an America of fact and factories, marketing and manufacturing, to the borderless Ohios of imagination and creation." ---From the introduction by Thomas Lynch |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 47 |
Section 3 | 57 |
Section 4 | 77 |
Section 5 | 82 |
Section 6 | 94 |
Section 7 | 105 |
Section 8 | 153 |
Section 16 | 266 |
Section 17 | 277 |
Section 18 | 298 |
Section 19 | 309 |
Section 20 | 314 |
Section 21 | 332 |
Section 22 | 334 |
Section 23 | 366 |
Section 9 | 184 |
Section 10 | 198 |
Section 11 | 212 |
Section 12 | 219 |
Section 13 | 235 |
Section 14 | 252 |
Section 15 | 263 |
Section 24 | 368 |
Section 25 | 371 |
Section 26 | 380 |
Section 27 | 383 |
Section 28 | 386 |
Section 29 | 390 |
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