William Eastlake, Castle Keep

Martin Kich (Wright State University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 5965

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Eastlake is known primarily for his novels of the American Southwest. Criticism of his work has primarily centered on the trilogy with which he began his career as a novelist: Go in Beauty (1956), The Bronc People (1958), and Portrait of the Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963). The novels were reprinted together as Three by Eastlake by Simon and Schuster in 1975 and then reprinted separately by the University of New Mexico Press in 1980. On the basis of these and several later novels, Eastlake’s work has been placed critically between that of Frank Waters and Edward Abbey.

Nonetheless, in the mid- to late-1960s, Eastlake wrote two war novels – Castle Keep (1965) and The Bamboo Bed

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Citation: Kich, Martin. "Castle Keep". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 January 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16687, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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