TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris,Gregory
TI  - A world of order and light: The fiction of John Gardner
SN  -  0820306967
U1  - 813.54 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - United States of America.
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - LITERATURA
KW  - FICCIÓN
N2  - No one knew better the words fragility than John Gardener. He realized that existence is a delicate balance between calm and chaos, between the secure and the accidental. There were no guarantees in life, only precarious truces. Gardner’s private peace with the universe was shattered the afternoon of September 14, 1982, as he rounded a curve in a Pennsylvania mountain road near his home in surely there was the ground gives way in the depths of a forest.
While death left  Gardner’s life in fragments a marriage just four days from celebration ,a major novel laboring towards completion time did allow his work to come, in an ironic sort of way, full circle .Both his first published novel and as their protagonist professors of philosophy, men who physically symbolized Gardner’s trademark as a philosophy. Novelist. Both novels were also critical failures, unfortunate beginnings an ends to Garners artistic life, the worth of all that came in between barely compensating for the deprived sense of promise from what might have been

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