To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

by Park Bucker, Arlyn Bruccoli, Thomas Wolfe

The relationship between Thomas Wolfe and his legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, has been the subject of guesswork and anecdote for seventy years. Beginning with the 1929 publication of Look Homeward, Angel, literary scholars have debated the writer's dependence on his editor and the degree to which Perkins participated in Wolfe's work. Now, with this volume of 251 letters between Wolfe and the House of Scribner (two-thirds of which have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033552
• ISBN13: 9781570033551
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"