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From: Patrick Nolan (pnolan@animalwelfare.com)
From Mr. Straus's letter (posted by Suellen Stringer-Hye):
> the
> canard that William Styron floated (and apologized to me for
> later) that Farrar Straus had turned down Lolita
A perhaps-tangential note: Styron is fixated on the issue of the
turning-down of works that later became immensely successful, because as
a junior editor at McGraw-Hill he rejected Kon-Tiki. His fictional
stand-in, the narrator of Sophie's Choice, does the same thing. This
may explain why this canard stuck to his imagination.
-Patrick Nolan
From Mr. Straus's letter (posted by Suellen Stringer-Hye):
> the
> canard that William Styron floated (and apologized to me for
> later) that Farrar Straus had turned down Lolita
A perhaps-tangential note: Styron is fixated on the issue of the
turning-down of works that later became immensely successful, because as
a junior editor at McGraw-Hill he rejected Kon-Tiki. His fictional
stand-in, the narrator of Sophie's Choice, does the same thing. This
may explain why this canard stuck to his imagination.
-Patrick Nolan