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Nicholas Delbanco
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Novelist, critic, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, traveler, and art aficionado, Nicholas Delbanco has here compiled a mosaic of his life as he glances backwards and forwards from the vantage point of…
The collected early novels of an American master.
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Book one of this novel, in a different form, was published as Spring and Fall by Grand Central Publishing, New York, in 2006 –Page 373.
The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a…
A family album: leather-bound, thin, its pages yellow with age. There are images on every page-black and white to start with, then Kodacolor.So begins Nicholas Delbanco’s new novel, It…
Provence: its magnificent landscape has inspired artists and writers for centuries. In this stunning evocation of Provencal culture and history, the critically lauded novelist and essayist Nicholas Delbanco captures both…
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One of America’s leading literary scholars explores the fascinating question of why some people’s creative talents flourish with age while others’ fade.
Ruminates on the life of the writer and the significance of language as art. This title takes as its central conceit a famous anecdote about Ernest Hemingway’s early work: Hemingway’s…
In this eloquent and inventive new collection, Delbanco - who, John Updike says, wrestles with the abundance of his gifts as a novelist the way other men wrestle with their…
Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time
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Author Nicholas Delbanco
A miscellany of sorts, preeminent author and critic Nicholas Delbanco’s Curiouser and Curiouser attests to a lifelong interest in music and the visual arts as well as both mere and…
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This is the fictionalised biography of the inventor of thermal underwear and the Rumford fireplace. On a par with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Count Rumford was, amongst many other…
Professor Nicholas Delbanco (UNIV OF MICHIGAN-ANN ARBOR)
Twenty-five years ago, Paul Ballard was a young college professor, and Elizabeth Sieverdsen was his adoring student. Now, he is a retired and reclusive man, and she is a recently…
E. E. Cummings,Nicholas Delbanco
Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives-The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernard Malamud
Designed to provide writers with insights into the way a master thinks about and practices his craft, this collection includes discussions of the novel, the short story, subject matter, work…
Author Nicholas Delbanco,Professor Alan Cheuse (GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY)
