THE ART OF LIVING; and Other Stories / Woodcuts by Mary Azarian
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Mary Azarian. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, light beige buckram with gold lettering on spine and gold pinecone on cover, pictorial dust jacket with woodcut of biker by Mary Azarian, profusely illustrated in woodcuts by Mary Azarian, pictorial beige Indian motifs on endpapers, [312] pages. Fine / Fine. Item #590
ISBN: 0394516745
SUPERB copy of this collection by author John Gardner.
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 other highly respected 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 was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1982.
Price: $45.00