Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr. - Tapa blanda

Lockridge, Larry

 
9780253012814: Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.
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ISBN 10: 0253012813 ISBN 13: 9780253012814
Editorial: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2014

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0253012813
ISBN 13 
9780253012814
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
542
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