{"publishers": ["University of Georgia Press"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["1307388"], "goodreads": ["30898"]}, "subtitle": "the years of learning how to write", "isbn_10": ["0820318493"], "subject_place": ["Southern States"], "covers": [1555329], "lc_classifications": ["PS3505.A322 Z463 1996", "PS3505.A322Z463 1996"], "key": "/books/OL964606M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL117832A"}], "publish_places": ["Athens"], "subject_time": ["20th century"], "pagination": "xv, 239 p. ;", "source_records": ["bwb:9780820318493", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part25.utf8:71840355:952", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:446411038:2333"], "title": "Call it experience", "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.52", "B"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Brown thrasher books.\"\nOriginally published: New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951."}, "number_of_pages": 239, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lccn": ["96000865"], "subjects": ["Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-  -- Childhood and youth.", "Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.", "Authorship.", "Southern States -- Social life and customs."], "publish_date": "1996", "publish_country": "gau", "by_statement": "Erskine Caldwell ; foreword by Erik Bledsoe.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL1164844W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["34077610"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "In this candid view of the hardships and rewards of the writer's life, Erskine Caldwell recalls his first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial authors of his time.\n\nAll the while conveying the enormous amount of drive and dedication with which he pursued his calling, Caldwell tells of his struggles to find his own voice, his travels, and his various jobs, which ranged from backbreaking manual labor to much sought-after positions in radio, film, and journalism.\n\nIncluding a self-interview, Call It Experience offers a wealth of insights into Caldwell's imagination and his writing habits, as well as his views on critics and reviewers, publishers, and booksellers. It is a source of information and inspiration to aspiring writers."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-02T01:03:14.038652"}}