Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
Tracy Daugherty, . . St. Martin's, $29.95 (581pp) ISBN 978-0-312-37868-4
This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a history of 20th-century architecture, film, philosophy, visual art and political activism—not to mention a stunning exegesis of Barthelme's work and a surfeit of vignettes from New York literary life in the 1960s and '70s. Daugherty, a professor of English and creative writing at Oregon State and former student of Barthelme, renders the writer of
Reviewed on: 11/24/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 592 pages - 978-1-4299-6526-2
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