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The making of a writer : journals, 1961-1963, Gail Godwin ; edited by Rob Neufeld
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- Summary
- "Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: "I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created." It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. In the heady days of her literary apprenticeship, Godwin kept a daily chronicle of her dreams and desires, her travels, love affairs, struggles, and breakthroughs. Now, at the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin has distilled these early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence." "The Making of a Writer opens during the feverish period following the breakup of Godwin's first marriage and her stint as a reporter for the Miami Herald. Aware that she is entering one of the great turning points of her life as she prepares to move to Europe, Godwin writes of the "one hundred different hungers" that consume her on the eve of departure. A whirlwind trip to New York, the passengers and their stories on board the SS Oklahoma, the shock of her first encounters with Danish customs (and Danish men) - Godwin conveys the excitement of a writer embracing a welter of new experiences." "After a long, dark Scandinavian winter and a gloriously romantic interlude in the Canary Islands, Godwin moves to London and embarks on the passionate engagements that will inspire some of her finest stories. She records the pleasures of soaking in the human drama on long rambles through the London streets - and the torment of lonely Sundays spent wrestling these impressions into prose. She shares her passion for Henry James, Marcel Proust, Lawrence Durrell, Thomas Wolfe - and her terror of facing twenty-six with nothing to show but a rejected novel and a stack of debts. "I do not feel like a failure," Godwin insists as she sits down yet again to the empty page. "I will keep writing, harder than ever.""--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 2 volumes
- Contents
-
- [v. 1]. Journals, 1961-1963 -- v. 2. Journals, 1963-1969
- v. 1. 1961-1963. The preparation : August 12-October 4, 1961 ; Taking leave : October 6-30, 1961 ; Walk, don't run : October 31-December 17, 1961 ; The fateful call : December 20, 1961-January 30, 1962 ; Andante : January 30-April 29, 1962 ; My vocation : May 8-September 30, 1962 ; Personal politics : October 1-December 26, 1962 ; My father's soul : January 2-February 16, 1963 ; Nightwalk : February 27-March 24, 1963 ; Resolution : March 26-June 22, 1963 ; The illumined moment : June 22-July 19, 1963 ; Appendix 1: Excerpts from "Halcyone and the lighthouse," the novel Gail Godwin started in 1961 ; Appendix 2: Literary influences in the work of Gail Godwin ; Appendix 3: Gail Godwin chronology -- v. 2. 1963-1969. The dramatic self : July 23-September 30, 1963 ; Brothers and lovers : November 17, 1963-March 23, 1964 ; Portrait of a woman : January 31-March 18, 1965 ; Accommodating Lucifer : March 20, 1965-February 12, 1966 ; The outsider : March 21-May 22, 1966 ; Getting published : March 5-November 3, 1968 ; The void and the validation : November 3-December 11, 1968 ; The writer's contract : December 13, 1968-March 11, 1969 ; Completion : March 12-July 6, 1969
- Isbn
- 9781400064335
- Label
- The making of a writer : journals, 1961-1963
- Title
- The making of a writer
- Title remainder
- journals, 1961-1963
- Statement of responsibility
- Gail Godwin ; edited by Rob Neufeld
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: "I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created." It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. In the heady days of her literary apprenticeship, Godwin kept a daily chronicle of her dreams and desires, her travels, love affairs, struggles, and breakthroughs. Now, at the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates, Godwin has distilled these early journals, which run from 1961 to 1963, to their brilliant and charming essence." "The Making of a Writer opens during the feverish period following the breakup of Godwin's first marriage and her stint as a reporter for the Miami Herald. Aware that she is entering one of the great turning points of her life as she prepares to move to Europe, Godwin writes of the "one hundred different hungers" that consume her on the eve of departure. A whirlwind trip to New York, the passengers and their stories on board the SS Oklahoma, the shock of her first encounters with Danish customs (and Danish men) - Godwin conveys the excitement of a writer embracing a welter of new experiences." "After a long, dark Scandinavian winter and a gloriously romantic interlude in the Canary Islands, Godwin moves to London and embarks on the passionate engagements that will inspire some of her finest stories. She records the pleasures of soaking in the human drama on long rambles through the London streets - and the torment of lonely Sundays spent wrestling these impressions into prose. She shares her passion for Henry James, Marcel Proust, Lawrence Durrell, Thomas Wolfe - and her terror of facing twenty-six with nothing to show but a rejected novel and a stack of debts. "I do not feel like a failure," Godwin insists as she sits down yet again to the empty page. "I will keep writing, harder than ever.""--Jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Godwin, Gail
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3557.O315
- LC item number
- Z468 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Neufeld, Rob
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Novelists, American
- Fiction
- Godwin, Gail
- Label
- The making of a writer : journals, 1961-1963, Gail Godwin ; edited by Rob Neufeld
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- [v. 1]. Journals, 1961-1963 -- v. 2. Journals, 1963-1969
- v. 1. 1961-1963. The preparation : August 12-October 4, 1961 ; Taking leave : October 6-30, 1961 ; Walk, don't run : October 31-December 17, 1961 ; The fateful call : December 20, 1961-January 30, 1962 ; Andante : January 30-April 29, 1962 ; My vocation : May 8-September 30, 1962 ; Personal politics : October 1-December 26, 1962 ; My father's soul : January 2-February 16, 1963 ; Nightwalk : February 27-March 24, 1963 ; Resolution : March 26-June 22, 1963 ; The illumined moment : June 22-July 19, 1963 ; Appendix 1: Excerpts from "Halcyone and the lighthouse," the novel Gail Godwin started in 1961 ; Appendix 2: Literary influences in the work of Gail Godwin ; Appendix 3: Gail Godwin chronology -- v. 2. 1963-1969. The dramatic self : July 23-September 30, 1963 ; Brothers and lovers : November 17, 1963-March 23, 1964 ; Portrait of a woman : January 31-March 18, 1965 ; Accommodating Lucifer : March 20, 1965-February 12, 1966 ; The outsider : March 21-May 22, 1966 ; Getting published : March 5-November 3, 1968 ; The void and the validation : November 3-December 11, 1968 ; The writer's contract : December 13, 1968-March 11, 1969 ; Completion : March 12-July 6, 1969
- Control code
- 61285655
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 2 volumes
- Isbn
- 9781400064335
- Isbn Type
- (v. 2 : hard : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2005044929
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The making of a writer : journals, 1961-1963, Gail Godwin ; edited by Rob Neufeld
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- [v. 1]. Journals, 1961-1963 -- v. 2. Journals, 1963-1969
- v. 1. 1961-1963. The preparation : August 12-October 4, 1961 ; Taking leave : October 6-30, 1961 ; Walk, don't run : October 31-December 17, 1961 ; The fateful call : December 20, 1961-January 30, 1962 ; Andante : January 30-April 29, 1962 ; My vocation : May 8-September 30, 1962 ; Personal politics : October 1-December 26, 1962 ; My father's soul : January 2-February 16, 1963 ; Nightwalk : February 27-March 24, 1963 ; Resolution : March 26-June 22, 1963 ; The illumined moment : June 22-July 19, 1963 ; Appendix 1: Excerpts from "Halcyone and the lighthouse," the novel Gail Godwin started in 1961 ; Appendix 2: Literary influences in the work of Gail Godwin ; Appendix 3: Gail Godwin chronology -- v. 2. 1963-1969. The dramatic self : July 23-September 30, 1963 ; Brothers and lovers : November 17, 1963-March 23, 1964 ; Portrait of a woman : January 31-March 18, 1965 ; Accommodating Lucifer : March 20, 1965-February 12, 1966 ; The outsider : March 21-May 22, 1966 ; Getting published : March 5-November 3, 1968 ; The void and the validation : November 3-December 11, 1968 ; The writer's contract : December 13, 1968-March 11, 1969 ; Completion : March 12-July 6, 1969
- Control code
- 61285655
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 2 volumes
- Isbn
- 9781400064335
- Isbn Type
- (v. 2 : hard : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2005044929
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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