Officiële naam: James, Cary Amory
Geboortedatum: 1935
Overlijdensdatum: 2018-12-12
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Virginia
Woonplaatsen: Mill Valley, California, USA
Opleiding: College of William and Mary
University of California, Berkeley
Beroepen: architect
novelist
Korte biografie: Cary James was born in Virginia, and received degrees from the College of William and Mary and the University of California at Berkeley. For two decades he practiced architecture in the San Francisco Bay area, before becoming a professional writer. He has published short stories, poems and book reviews, and served as chair of the Fiction Award Committee of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel, a photographic essay on that now-demolished building; Julia Morgan, a young person’s biography of the San Francisco architect; and King & Raven, his first novel. Baranaby Conrad once defined the full life as one in which “you build a house, plant a tree, create a child, and fight a bull.” James regrets that he has not yet met his bull. He lives in Mill Valley California with his wife Elaine.

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King and Raven door Cary James

I loved this book. It was meticulously researched and accurately portrayed life in medieval Europe. This was not a book that idolized Camelot. It portrays Arthur and his knights as human, and not in their best light. The book starts out with several of Arthur's knights raping the main character's sister, who dies from blood loss soon after. I found the James' portrayal of the rigid class structure throughout the book very interesting, and through the lens of the modern day, disheartening. Finally, a realistic Arthurian novel.… (meer)

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King & Raven door Cary James

I read this many years ago when it first came out, and recently I re-read it on scribd with my phone, mainly as a portable thing I could carry for a few minutes here and there. It's Arthuriana but was a decent narrative, and the implicit challenges to class structure were interesting. What troubled me a bit was the imperviousness of the protagonist and the late addition of magical explanation for what had already become a standard expectation in the narrative (the imperviousness of the protagonist), but it was still good fun.… (meer)

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