The Making of a Writer Vol 2

HardCover. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 336 Publisher: Random House True time is The villain and WE are Trapped in him. True love is sometimes not returned True friends are sometimes false but to be aware of this-all of it-and still want to go on living. that is the triumph. It is the reward. As a young woman and aspiring author. Gail Godwin kept a detailed journal of her hopes and dreams. her love affairs . daily struggles. and small triumphs as she yearned for the day when she would finally become a published writer. At the urging of her friend Joyce Carol Oates. Godwin has distilled these early journals into two parts: This second and final volume opens in London in 1963 and concludes with the triumphant sale of Godwin's first novel in 1969.Newly divorced and filled with literary ambition. Godwin arrives in London in 1962. At the start of this second volume. the call to write ha...