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Blows Against the Empire.(Philip K. Dick)
There's nothing more exciting to an adolescent reader than an unknown genre writer who speaks to your condition and has something great about him. The Ace paperback cover promises mere thrills, and the writing provides real meaning. The combination of evident value and apparent secrecy makes Elmore Leonard fans feel more for their hero than Borges lovers are allowed to feel for theirs. When they tell you it's going to be good, what more can you hope for it to be?
Eventually, enough of these secret fans grow up and get together, and the writer is designated a Genius, acquiring all the encumbrances of genius: fans, notes, annotated editions, and gently disparaging ...
- ROBERTSON DAVIES MAN OF MYTH, by Judith Skelton Grant; Viking (787 pages,...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Wilson, Frank January 10, 1996 700+ words
More than most authors, Robertson Davies earned his readers' affection...Judith Skelton Grant's ``Robertson Davies: Man of Myth'' is an affectionate...Wales. By the time William Robertson Davies arrived on the scene, Rupert...
- Robertson Davies' Magic
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Charles Trueheart January 7, 1996 700+ words
ROBERTSON DAVIES Man of Myth By Judith Skelton Grant...35 THE TERRITORY of wonder that Robertson Davies means to reclaim in his marvelous...s family in Ontario, William Robertson Davies grew up under a distant but beloved...
- Robertson Davies' Pictures From an Institution
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Anne Tyler December 18, 1988 700+ words
THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS By Robertson Davies Viking. 472 pp. $19.95 IT SEEMS fitting that Robertson Davies' best-known novel, Fifth Business...his career from oblivion. Clearly, Robertson Davies is planning to have some fun with...
- Obituary: Professor Robertson Davies
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London FELICITY BRYAN December 5, 1995 700+ words
William Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright and English...December 1995. My first meal with Robertson Davies in 1986 was celebratory, writes...also to escape. For in Canada Robertson Davies was a hero. His books were both...
- A Passion That Melted Snow: Canadian Writer Robertson Davies
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Charles Trueheart December 5, 1995 700+ words
People always laughed, Robertson Davies said, when he told them that...hours." People laughed, but Robertson Davies was trying to tell them the...Washington Post early this year. "Robertson Davies composes a kind of fictionalized...
- Robertson Davies 1960
- Reference information from: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations John Robert Colombo April 1, 1994 700+ words
00-00-0000 Robertson Davies 1960 Where are the clerisy? They are people who like to read...to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books. Robertson Davies helped revive the use of the word clerisy for a certain kind...
- Robertson Davies.(Canadian author dead at age 82)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 9, 1995 700+ words
THE Canadians, Robertson Davies once wrote, are "a nation of losers". He believed that...that no one, but no one, has any interest in Canada." Robertson Davies, reasonably, did not agree. And even if it were true...
- Robertson Davies 1957
- Reference information from: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations John Robert Colombo April 1, 1994 700+ words
00-00-0000 Robertson Davies 1957 There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket. This happy line comes from Love and Libel (1957), Robertson Davies' s stage adaptation of his novel Leaven of Malice (1954).