GUDGEKIN; The Thistle Girl and Other Tales / Illustrated by Michael Sporn
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, gray cloth with light gold lettering over tan boards, illustrated with frontispiece & other full-page B&W drawings by Michael Sporn, Mylar-protected pictorial and greenish dust jacket (unclipped) by Sporn, [vi] + 59 pages + [60] About the Author. Fine / Fine. Item #2717
ISBN: 0394832760
John Gardner (1933 – 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. A tour de force!
Gardner's best-known novels include The Sunlight Dialogues, about a disaffected policeman asked to engage a madman fluent in classical mythology; Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view, with an existential subtext; and October Light, about an embittered brother and sister living and feuding with each other in rural Vermont (the novel includes an invented "trashy novel" the woman reads). This last book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976.
Gardner also wrote superior children's novels such as our volume, which contains four of his tales.
Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1982.--Wikipedia abridged.
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