Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness

by Nicholas Delbanco

Overview

The collected early novels of an American master.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564785879
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	08/25/2011
Series:	American Literature
Pages:	671
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction and nonfiction including, most recently, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished UniversityProfessor of English at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Hopwood awards program and was for many years the director of the MFA program in creative writing.

Editorial Reviews

An excellent writer is among us, and if we neglect him, we shall have to apologize to posterity.

The New York Times

Delbanco has a fine intellect and a sharp pen, and he wields both with precision.

Harvard Review

Nicholas Delbanco writes like an inspired maniac, with a brilliant outpouring of image and idea.

Patricia Meyer Spacks - Hudson Review

[Nicholas Delbanco] wrestles with the abundance of his gifts as a novelist the way other men wrestle with their deficiencies.

John Updike