Upstate: Records And Recollections Of Northern New York
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean and intact. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact
A landmark work of autobiographical memoir and cultural reflection, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York chronicles Edmund Wilson's decades-long connection to his ancestral family home in Talcottville, Lewis County, in the remote reaches of upstate New York. One of America's most celebrated literary critics, Wilson presents a rich tapestry of personal memory, regional history, and social observation, weaving together diary entries and reflections spanning from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Written with Wilson's characteristically sharp and unsentimental prose, the book illustrates the profound changes sweeping through rural America during the twentieth century — industrialisation, shifting social mores, and the gradual erosion of an older, quieter way of life. It also stands as an intimate self-portrait of an aging intellectual confronting mortality, solitude, and the passage of time, earning its reputation, noted by the New York Times, as a haunting book that will be read hundreds of years from now to learn what the twentieth century was about.
Author: Edmund Wilson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean and intact. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact
A landmark work of autobiographical memoir and cultural reflection, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York chronicles Edmund Wilson's decades-long connection to his ancestral family home in Talcottville, Lewis County, in the remote reaches of upstate New York. One of America's most celebrated literary critics, Wilson presents a rich tapestry of personal memory, regional history, and social observation, weaving together diary entries and reflections spanning from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Written with Wilson's characteristically sharp and unsentimental prose, the book illustrates the profound changes sweeping through rural America during the twentieth century — industrialisation, shifting social mores, and the gradual erosion of an older, quieter way of life. It also stands as an intimate self-portrait of an aging intellectual confronting mortality, solitude, and the passage of time, earning its reputation, noted by the New York Times, as a haunting book that will be read hundreds of years from now to learn what the twentieth century was about.