On broken glass
Subtitle: loving and losing John Gardner
By: Susan Thornton
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780786707744
Subjects: American Novelists; Biographie; Relations with men; Biography; Relations with women
Description: "From the unforgettable moment when Susan Thornton first meets the charismatic and seductive Gardner at the 1979 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference to the day of his untimely, violent death, she recalls with stinging emotional resonance both the rapture of ardent physical love and the torments of adulterous deceit. Unflinchingly she examines Gardner's troubled last months as she maps the downward spiral of a demon-ridden alcoholic life.

With candor she discloses the dark side of the literary genius, and with extracts from intimate letters never before published, she illuminates in Gardner's own words the creative appetite and imaginative power of this accomplished, often controversial novelist."--BOOK JACKET.