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Pulled between the disparate spheres of homelife with his minister father and the world of sex, drugs, and violence of his closest friends, author Stephen Haven relates his journey of self-discovery in this poignant memoir. After a fourteen-year absence from his home in Amsterdam, New York, Haven returns to the streets that molded his character. Through memories of his adolescence, Haven relives his youth in this economically deprived community and explores the values of friendship, loyalty, and privilege. A true bildungsroman, The River Lock traces the forging of Haven’s identity from the clash of the two worlds of his youth-home and street. His return to his childhood past allows Haven to understand and describe how his growing understanding of art, culture, spirituality, and class melded to create a man able to live fully in two distinct worlds, the foundation of the man he is today.
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Stephen Haven is director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Ashland University and director of the Ashland Poetry Press. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks and Dust and Bread. He is also editor of The Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass: Everything Human, and coeditor of two anthologies of contemporary poetry.
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... a universal story, one to stand alongside such memoirs as Mary Karr's The Liars' Club or Wolff's This Boy's Life... -- Michael Pearson, author of Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
...a story of love lost and regained, and a testament to the stories that shape us. -- Kim Barnes, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of In the Wilderness
In Ulysses, Joyce explodes a single ordinary day into a life's journey... Haven pulls off a variation of that trick... -- Syracuse New times
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- PublisherSyracuse University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0815609280
- ISBN 13 9780815609285
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages188
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