Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Freddy's Book, John Gardner Kennedy for the Defense, George V. Higgins * Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood * Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler * Neighbors, Thomas Berger * The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter * The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, Doris Lessing
FICTION: Freddy's Book, John Gardner Kennedy for the Defense, George V. Higgins ∙Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood ∙Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙Neighbors, Thomas Berger The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin ∙The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
FICTION: Freddy's Book, John Gardner Kennedy for the Defense, George V. Higgins ∙Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood ∙Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin ∙The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter ∙Yellowfish, John Keeble
...novel was ever harmed by an irresistible beginning. Freddy's Book, Author John Gardner's eighth novel, is a case in point. While riding the lecture circuit in the Midwest, Professor Jack Winesap meets a strange old historian with a stranger pronouncement: "I have a son who's a monster." Winesap accepts an invitation to the man's house, arrives at an isolated and crumbling old estate during a blizzard, and is promptly snowed in for the night. After some suspenseful dawdling, the host allows his guest to visit Freddy, a young man who stands some...
...tear Winesap limb from limb or to discuss how it feels to be taken for a monster. Rather, he drops a bulky manuscript of his own composition inside the room and stomps off. The rest of Freddy 's Book is just that: Freddy's book. Gardner has used the device of a novel within a novel before, most successfully in his widely praised October Light (1976), but this time he refuses to provide the other half of the framing tale: Winesap, Freddy, his father and all the complications suggested by their meeting simply disappear...