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My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell Hardcover - 2002
by Wilkinson, Alec
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- Title My Mentor: A Young Man's Friendship with William Maxwell
- Author Wilkinson, Alec
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, U.s.a.
- Date 2002-04-04
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0618123016
- ISBN 9780618123018 / 0618123016
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 5.32 x 0.74 in (21.13 x 13.51 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Editors - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001051882
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
At twenty-four, Alec Wilkinson decided that he wanted to write, so his father asked for the help of his closest friend, William Maxwell, widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and an editor of fiction for forty years at The New Yorker. MY MENTOR is the story of a young man's education at the hands of a master and a heartbreaking meditation on the brave, graceful end of Maxwell's long and happy life - he died at ninety-one, in July 2000. Making use of biography, memoir, and essay, and writing in a lapidary but intimate voice, Wilkinson explores the deeply resonant friendship between the old man and the young one. His experience with Maxwell over the course of twenty-five years he takes as the occasion for a profound and moving reflection on writing, wisdom, fatherhood, love, courage, dignity, and the end that awaits us all.