![]() ![]() ![]() By the time the National Book Critics Circle called his "October Light" the best novel of 1976, he had already pick-axed out a career in another field - medievalist, as he calls himself. He wrote novels for 15 years before a single one was published - "The Resurrection." He had begun his first novel, "Nickel Mountain," at 19, and rewritten it for years until its publication in 1973. Like many sons of the Welsh, he has been down in the mine a long time. This is a room for screts about the dark art of mining words, for whispers about the quarrying of fiction. ![]() There will be no "Sunlight Dialogues" today with John Gardner, the author of that novel and six others. His silver-white lion's mane gleams, the only brightness in the deep brown corner where he sits. The literary lion waits, crouched in the shadowy cave of a dark-beamed French restaurant. ![]()
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