Double vision
Subtitle: a novel
By: George Garrett.
Series: Deep South books
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Biography as a literary form -- Fiction; Literary quarrels -- Fiction; College teachers -- Fiction; Biographers -- Fiction; Authors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "A writer named George Garrett, suffering from double vision as the result of a neurological disorder, is asked to review a recent, first biography of the late Peter Taylor, a renowned writer who has been his long-time friend and neighbor in Charlottesville. Reflecting on their relationship, Garrett conceives of a character - not unlike himself - a writer in his early 70s, ill and suffering from double vision, named Frank Toomer. He gives Toomer a neighbor, a distinguished short story writer named Aubrey Carver." "As the real George Garrett and Peter Taylor are replaced by two very different and imaginary writers, the story becomes a wise and insightful exploration of American literary life, the art of biography, the comical rivalries among writers and academics, notions of literary success, and the knotty relationship of art to life, fact to fiction, and life to death. Double Vision is a witty tour de force and an elegy for a gifted generation of American writers."--BOOK JACKET.