Wakeful Anguish

The life story of an iconoclastic southern novelist that illuminates the personal agonies that tormented him and fired his imagination.

Ashby Bland Crowder is M. E. and Ima Graves Peace Professor of English, American Literature, and the Humanities at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas.

Acknowledgments

xiii

Abbreviations

xv

Introduction

1

(9)

[1] From Red River County to New York City

10

(16)

[2] First Stories-North and South

The Last Husband and Other Stories

26

(42)

[3] Walling into Oblivion

Home from the Hill

68

(42)

[4] Look Away! Look Away!

The Ordways

110

(55)

[5] Wind without Rain

A Time and a Place

165

(51)

[6] As Edwina Lay Dying

Proud Flesh

216

(46)

[7] A Palpable Darkness

Hostages to Fortune

262

(45)

[8] The Red and the White

No Resting Place

307

(28)

[9] Senescence, Illness, and Death

September Song

335

(38)

Selected Bibliography

373

(12)

Index

385

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