Edmund Wilson: Our Neighbor from Talcottville

by Richard Hauer Costa

For the eminent American literary critic Edmund Wilson, Upstate New York was home. Richard Hauer Costa's biography of Wilson's final years, from 1962 to 1972, in Talcottville, NY, combines the literary, the political, and the domestic in an engaging portrait of Wilson as "squierarchical, Dickensian, benevolent."

Costa shows us a very personal, accessible man as he tells us about Wilson's opinions, literary and otherwise, his likes and dislikes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815601638
• ISBN13: 9780815601630
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.3"