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The Tale Maker

The Tale Maker

The Tale Maker
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The Tale Maker Paperback - 1995

by Harris, Mark,

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  • Title The Tale Maker
  • Author Harris, Mark,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 215
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1995-10-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 255539-n
  • ISBN 9780803272804 / 0803272804
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.06 x 0.55 in (23.01 x 15.39 x 1.40 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors - Fiction, College teachers - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95030997
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 5

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Reader reviews for The Tale Maker

From the publisher

Mark Harris took you out to the ballgame in his Henry Wiggen novels, The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly, A Ticket for a Seamstitch, and It Looked Like For Ever. In The Tale Maker, he takes you to college. Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong. As the editor of the campus Sentinel, he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses. Supported by his parents, he could concentrate on things that mattered: his writing, his wife-to-be, and his friends and enemies--including the warped Kakapick, who serves Rimrose lastingly as model and prototype of the literary scoundrel. Rimrose--Tale Maker of the title--turns from journalism to fiction-writing, kept alive by his wife's practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his father's small-town newspaper or playing politics in university service.

From the rear cover

Rimrose was well-read, smart, and strong. As editor of the campus 'Sentinel, ' he was perfectly placed to observe how a university worked, and ideally inclined to expose its ethical weaknesses. Rimrose-Tale Maker of the title-turns from journalism to fiction-writing, kept alive by his wife's practical and ingenious devotion to selling his stories, even those he has tossed in the trash. As he grows older and begets children, he worries about income and faces stultifying choices: managing his father's small-town newspaper or playing politics in university service.

Media reviews

Citations

  • New York Times, 01/28/1996, Page 32

About the author

Mark Harris is a professor of English at Arizona State University. His celebrated baseball novels have also been reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press.
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