{"product_id":"conversations-with-john-gardner","title":"Conversations with John Gardner","description":"This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America’s foremost novelists.\u003cp\u003eThese interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the publication of such popular and critical successes as \u003ci\u003eGrendel\u003c\/i\u003e (1971) and \u003ci\u003eThe Sunlight Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as “a major contemporary writer.” After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book \u003ci\u003eOn Moral Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and in his interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers rema\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52691213222255,"sku":"9780878054237","price":220.08,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0878054235.jpg?v=1771533121","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/conversations-with-john-gardner","provider":"Loja UmLivro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}