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Connell, Evan Shelby was born on August 17, 1924 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Evan Shelby and Elton (Williamson) Connell.
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Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he sense that his family needs something, even when what they need is more of him and less of his money. Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that cloaks the void withinnot the skeleton in the closet but a black hole swallowing the whole household. The Bridge novels have been recognized as classics during their author’s lifetime. With their shared ability to capture the manners and mores of the American upper middle class, Connell has done for the late thirties what Sinclair Lewis did for the twenties.
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We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has not lost what Alfred Adler calls the nerve for excellence.’ He has kept it despite the burden of an awareness not only of the enormity of his project and of the limitations of his own human understanding, but also of the abject ignorance and indifference of his audience... Somehow Connell makes you care. Many modern poets demand a good deal of work; Connell excites it. Sometimes the note-taker’s narrator tone is hectoring, even belligerent; if you have any competitive spirit at all, you seize a threadany threadfollow it, and lo, it traces a pattern you understand at last that these notes are not tentative explorations, and far less are they expression:’ they are instead the magnificent artifices of a giant intellect... These poems are masterpieces. You could bend a lifetime of energy to their study, and have lived well. The fabric of their meaning is seamless, inexhaustible their language is steely and bladelike; from both of its surfaces flickering lights gleam. Each page sheds insight on every other page; understanding snaps back and forth, tacking like a sloop up the long fjord of mystery.”Annie Dillard, Harper
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(Evan S. Connell achieved fame with his remarkable biograp...)
Evan S. Connell achieved fame with his remarkable biography of General Armstrong Custer, SON OF MORNING STAR. But he was an accomplished artist long before that. His literary reputation rests in large measure on his two Bridge books. MR. BRIDGE is the companion volume to Connell's MRS. BRIDGE. It is made up of fragments of experience from the life of a middle-aged suburban couple between two wars. Brief episodes are juxtaposed to reveal the stereotyped values and emotional and spiritual aridity of the prosperous and ever-so-proper Bridges. "Connell's art is one of restraint and perfect mimicry. His chapters are admirably short, his style is brevity itself...rarely has a satirist damned his subject with such good humor." (The New York Times)
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'General George Armstrong Custer was a brave, ambitious, stupid cavalryman. Bravely, ambitiously and stupidly he rode with under 70 troopers into the greatest war party the Indians ever assembled in North America, mustering some 20,000 braves. He and his band were wiped out. Evan S. Connell is a novelist and he has brought a novelist's audacity to the construction of "Son of The Morning Star", a civilized and compassionate history. This is a magnificent book' - "Financial Times". 'Custer's Last Stand' is amongst the most enduring events in American history - more than a hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers', wrote what continues to be the most reliable - and compulsively readable - account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his research and novelist's eye for story and detail to recreate the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject.
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Jacket cover and frontispiece portraits of General Custer by Leonard Baskin. Chapter devise represents Custer's personal flag. 5th printing 1984
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Karl Muhlbach, hero of Evan Connell’s previous novel, The Connoisseur, has a new obsessiona beautiful, nubile girl-about-New York named Lambeth Brent, whose puzzling background and swinging activities lead Muhlbach into dark areas, causing new revelations of himself as a man to emerge. The mysterious bonds between opposites come into sharp relief as we follow the course of Muhlbach and Lambeth’s relationship. An uncomfortable visit to the ballet, an abortive country vacation, brief but sparkling happy moments, and Muhlbach’s final, shocking discovery add up to a mosaic of vignettes, rendering the characters startlingly real. Double Honeymoon explores the built-in dangers of a love affair between a cautious, conservative, middle-aged widower and a neurotic, high-strung, self-destructive girl. But far from just another May-September romance, the book is a keen examination of the dilemma posed by two people who are attracted to each other, yet unable to come together because of the profound differences in their backgrounds and outlooks. With a sure hand, Evan Connell demonstrates just how profound those differences can be.
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Praise for Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel A unique tour de force” The New York Times Book Review One of the most remarkable books that I have read in a long time.” Kenneth Rexroth Mr. Connell’s NOTES are what one intelligent, sensitive artist has been able to salvage from all experience as testimony to the rather pathetic integrity of the human species in the face of extinction. The book is no manual or tract, however, although its political meaning is unmistakable, but a work of art, even a work of high art.” Hayden Carruth
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(A collection of anecdotes, scraps of history, arcane lore...)
A collection of anecdotes, scraps of history, arcane lore, and unfamiliar quotations on the condition of man and the world he lives in.
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Connell, Evan Shelby was born on August 17, 1924 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Evan Shelby and Elton (Williamson) Connell.
Student, Dartmouth, 1941-1943; AB, U. Kansas, 1946-1947; graduate study, Stanford University, 1947-1948; graduate study, Columbia University, 1948-1949.
Editor, Contact magazine, Sausalito, California, 1960-1965.
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Served as naval aviator 1943-1945. Member American Academy of Arts and Letters.