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Shade of the Raintree, Centennial Edition
The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County|
9,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 17.04.2014 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253012982 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 536 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>Raintree County, the first novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, won MGM's Novel Award and a movie deal, and stood at the top of the nation's bestseller lists. Unfortunately, Lockridge's first novel was also his last. Two months after its publication the 33-year-old author from Bloomington, Indiana, took his own life. His son Larry was five years old at the time. Shade of the Raintree is Larry's search for an understanding of his father's baffling act. In this powerfully narrated biography, Larry Lockridge uncovers a man of great vitality, humor, love, and visionary ambition, but also of deep vulnerability. The author manages to combine a son's emotional investments with a sleuth's dispassionate inquiry. The result is an exhilarating, revelatory narrative of an American writer's life. With a new preface by the author, this 2014 paperback edition marks 100 years since the birth of Ross Lockridge, Jr.</p>
<p>Larry Lockridge is Professor of English at New York University and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is author of Coleridge the Moralist, The Ethics of Romanticism, and essays on biography and British Romantic literature. For Shade of the Raintree he received the MidAmerica Award, given by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.</p>
<p>For more information on author Ross Lockridge, Jr., visit <a href="http://www.raintreecounty.com/">www.raintreecounty.com</a></p>
<p>Larry Lockridge grew up in the shade of the 'founding catastrophe' of his family—that his brilliant, fated father, author of what many considered the Great American Novel, had killed himself, leaving four infants and a noble-browed young widow.  No disappeared father has been more honored by a son's inquiry than is Ross Lockridge, Jr. by his son Larry's utterly engaging biography. The son's gaze is forthright, sparing nothing, accepting and reconciling all, and bringing to this absorbing history the same ancestral powers of narration which distinguished his dazzling, lost father.</p>
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