The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature by Trogdon, Robert
The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature by Trogdon, Robert

The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature

The business of making an American literary icon The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest...
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The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature by Trogdon, Robert

The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature

$551.77
The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature by Trogdon, Robert

The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature

$551.77
Author: Robert Trogdon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The business of making an American literary icon

The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway's working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical study of Hemingway's professional collaboration with Scribners also details the editing, promotion, and sales of the books he published with the firm from 1926 to 1952 and provides a fascinating look into the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century.

This painstakingly researched study reveals the working relationship between Hemingway and his editors, with special emphasis on the friendship that developed between Hemingway and the dean of American book editors, Maxwell Perkins. Drawing on many unpublished resources, including correspondence between Hemingway and his editors and others in the firm, as well as printing, advertising records, and sales dummies,
Robert W. Trogdon shows how Hemingway's public reputation was shaped in large part by Scribners.

Hemingway scholars will appreciate this contribution to Hemingway studies, and The Lousy Racket is an important contribution to studies in the modernist era in American literature and to book history.



Author: Robert Trogdon
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 05/07/2007
Pages: 307
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.58w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780873389044


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/26/2007 pg. 83

About the Author
Robert W. Trogdon is professor and chair of English at Kent State University, assistant executive editor of The Works of Joseph Conrad, and coeditor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.


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