EAN: 9781644212868

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In Writers great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny grotesque and a touch brutal Gifford shows these writers at their most human which is to say at their worst: they are liars frauds lousy lovers and drunks. This is a world in which Ernest Hemingway drunkenly sets explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba Marcel Proust implores the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed and Albert Camus converses with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room. In Gifford's house of mirrors we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. These stories meant to be performed as plays are tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Obsessions loom large especially a preoccupation with death. Gifford asks: What does it mean to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist what defines failure or success? This new edition of Writers includes five new pieces featuring Georges Simenon with André Gide Franz Kafka with Marcel Proust Flannery O’Connor with William Burroughs Ivan Turgenev with Fyodor Dostoyevsky Joseph Conrad with D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather with Gypsy Rose Lee.

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