James Dickey: The World As A Lie by Henry Hart

A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks.

Publisher:	Picador
Year:	2000
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780312204167
Condition:	Good
Description:	Heavy. Spine sunned and creased; cover creased; soiling to page edges,.

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SKU: 1600209
Location: Biography