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Travels with My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life (The Basque Series),Used
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Renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt has embraced a wide range of subjects in his nearly halfcentury career. In this candid memoir, he explores what is perhaps his most difficult subject everhimself and his life as a writer.The book opens with a series of vignettes about his youth in Carson City as the second son of an immigrant Basque family and his later experiences as a student at the University of Nevada in Reno.The second part of the book tells of Laxalt's career as a writerhis early days as a reporter when his assignments included interviews with gangsters and obligatory attendance at executions; his later adventures as a contract writer for National Geographic, and his two stays in the Basque Country. He also recounts his days as director of the University of Nevada's news service and his role in the founding of the University of Nevada Press.The third section discusses the writing of several of his major bookswhere the ideas came from, what he tried to accomplish in each book, the challenges he faced, and the ways he chose to resolve them. Foreword by Cheryll Glotfelty.
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