Overdrive (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: Late autumn, 1981, with flashbacks
- Setting: Primarily Connecticut and New York
- Principal Characters: William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley, Sr., Edward Pulling, Rosalyn Tureck, Fernando Valenti, David Niven, Ronald Reagan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Friendship, Lifestyles, Work or workers, Students or student life, Biography
Form and Content
William F. Buckley, Jr., paused to examine his life at a peak moment, choosing a single week in the late autumn of 1981. It was a week not dominated by major world events, so that the everyday life of this politically conscious figure, and his more purely human consciousness, comes to the fore. The form of a seven-day slice of life is more novelistic than memoiristic; the refusal to rearrange life dramatically, instead cherishing its mundane texture and spontaneous moments of reflection, suggests the film documentary more than a novel—hence the...
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