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The renowned author revisits the places and key moments in his life, evoking his encounters, friendships, marriage, travels, and especially, his experiences as a writer

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer brings together two of Wright Morris's best-known novels,  The Works of Love (1951) and The Huge Season (1954).

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer brings together two of Wright Morris's best-known novels,  The Works of Love (1951) and The Huge Season (1954).

Two for the Roadbrings together a pair of thematically related novels,  Man and Boy (1951) and In Orbit (1967), each of which concerns a rural American community's response to petty tyranny.

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Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways. "Ceremony in Lone Tree" is a spare and beautiful work by one of America's great postwar authors.

An indispensable resource for those who wish to understand and appreciate the brilliance and virtuosity of one of America's true talents

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Friday, November 22, 1963, in Escondido, California, begins with the discovery of an infant in the adoption basket at the local animal pound. This calculated effort to shock the natives is silenced by the news from Dallas of an event calculated to shock the world. One Day is concerned with the way these two events are related and with the time that begins when conventional time seems to have stopped. The events of this day, both comical and ho...