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Title: Max and Marjorie: The Correspondence Between Maxwell E. Perkins and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Maxwell E. Perkins, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodger L. Tarr ISBN: 0-8130-1691-6 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Marvelous
Comment: Max Perkins was the emperor of editors. I'm an editor myself (of textbooks), and Editor to Author, a collection of Perkins's letters to many of his writers, taught me how to deal with authors in order to get the best out of them. Two things about Max and Marjorie especially struck me. One was the difference between then and now in speed of communication. We'd never have these wonderful letters if Max and Marjorie had been using email or the telephone. The other was the insensitive attitude toward blacks. These were two educated and sensitive people. They didn't even realize what they were doing or saying. It seems horrible now.
I have worked on textbooks in which the writing process is a prominent feature in teaching students, and it is made to sound deadly dull, but the writing process makes a fascinating subject when it's discussed by Max and Marjorie.
I gave up a night's sleep because I did not want to put this book down.
Rating: 5
Summary: Letters of a Lifetime
Comment: I had chills when Perkins wrote Rawlings, "I see you book as a story about a boy growing up in the scrub...." and the Yearling was born from America's greatest editor to one of his authors that he understood as only he could.Reading his letters to her is to know American fiction first hand, from the genius's workshop gently passed on to a brilliant pupil. I have nothing but praise for the collector for bringing this to us.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Perfect Wedding of Writer and Editor
Comment: This is a breathtaking book . . . I felt like I was in the room with Marjorie as she wrote each letter to Max Perkins. She is engaging, perceptive, very charming and brutally honest by turns. Max Perkins knew how to motivate Marjorie toward her best work through compliments and gentle reminders. When Max dies, it is hearbreaking, because the book is over, and I wanted it to continue on.
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Title: Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' "Perfect Maid" by Idella Parker, Mary Keating ISBN: 0813011442 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodger L. Tarr ISBN: 0813012538 Publisher: University Press of Florida Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: CROSS CREEK by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ISBN: 0684818795 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 20 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title:Cross Creek ASIN: B00005R242 Publisher: Anchor Bay Entertain Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: The Yearling by N.C. Wyeth, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ISBN: 0020449313 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 30 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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