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010 $a 2006037509
020 $a9781570036743 (alk. paper)
020 $a1570036748 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM76262053
035 $a(OCoLC)76262053
035 $a(NNC)6220178
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050 00 $aPS3545.O337$bZ48 2007
082 00 $a813/.52$aB$222
100 1 $aWolfe, Thomas,$d1900-1938.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054341
245 10 $aWindows of the heart :$bthe correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Margaret Roberts /$cedited by Ted Mitchell ; foreword by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $aliv, 201 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]) and index.
520 1 $a"Thomas Wolfe remains one of the least understood of the major twentieth-century American writers, but his relationship with his most influential teacher sheds new light on his creative genius and on the nurture of creativity in general. Windows of the Heart collects seventy-five letters exchanged between WoIfe and Margaret Roberts, the grade-school teacher he called "the mother of my spirit," and follows the ebb and flow of their complex relationship. Their letters document one of the most important forces in the novelist's life." "When Wolfe entered a writing contest at age eleven, Roberts easily identified the young boy's literary potential. From that moment forward she became his most ardent supporter. His teacher for four years, she awakened in him a love for fine literature and a belief in his abilities. Wolfe later described the years under her tutelage as "the happiest and most valuable years of my life."" "Published for the first time in their entirety and supplemented with forty-two photographs, the letters between teacher and student portray Roberts's significance to Wolfe and provide important clues to his process of fictionalization. Wolfe confides to Roberts - as he can to no one else - about fame, his writing, his life, his affair with Aline Bernstein, and his interactions with editor Maxwell Perkins." "Their correspondence builds to the publication of Look Homeward, Angel. After seventeen years of an intense and loving relationship, Roberts feels betrayed by the novel's satiric portrayal of her husband and his family. Their communication stops for seven years, but in a testament to her love tor Wolfe, Roberts eventually reinitiates a correspondence that lasts until his death." "In addition to Ted Mitchell's introduction, the letters are augmented by a foreword from Matthew J. Bruccoli, a leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aWolfe, Thomas,$d1900-1938$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRoberts, Margaret,$d1876-1946$vCorrespondence.
700 1 $aRoberts, Margaret,$d1876-1946.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001072543
700 1 $aMitchell, Ted.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00039056
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006037509.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3545.O337$iZ48 2007