To the life of the silver harbor
Subtitle: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod
By: Reuel K. Wilson.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781584657132
Subjects: Wilson, Edmund, -- 1895-1972 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; McCarthy, Mary, -- 1912-1989 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Critics -- United States -- Biography; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) and Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), famed authors, literary critics, libertines, and leftists, were married for seven years and had one child together, Reuel K. Wilson. While bringing forward new biographical revelations, as well as texts that have never been published before, Reuel K. Wilson chronicles his parents' lives on Cape Cod, together and apart, while examining their relationships with the landscape around them, both human and physical. The book combines biography, cultural history, and literary analysis in an effort to, as the author writes, "impart a sense of the two protagonists flesh, blood, nerves, and determination to make an artistic synthesis from observation and experience.

If they recreate the place, my role has been to recreate them in it.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The background; title: Edmund Wilson's Provincetown in the twenties and thirties; title: Edmund Wilson's Wellfleet, 1941-1972; title: Edmund Wilson's Cape Cod poetry; title: Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod : the post-Wilson years, from the unfinished "Lost week" to A charmed life; title: Remembering my parents and Cape Cod.