Going to the Sun - Softcover

James Webster Sherwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966196155 ISBN 13: 9780966196153

Publisher: Opus Books, 2010

Synopsis

A remembrance of five generations of log cabin life inside Glacier Park. It traces the ups and downs of one isolated, insulated, alienated family living for over a century on the shores of Lake McDonald - and one boy growing up in it. It speaks to the tales of Apgar, a village that lives no more, where time was lost and no one learned to hate, where heaven and hell, an enchanted forest, greed and revenge, buried gold and an unsolved murder, a lake with a drowned bride in its depths, from crime to confession unfold. Haunted by a family of living ghosts, a glowing masterpiece hanging in a museum, the solitary millionaire who began it all, the squandering son who came to be called Guppy Grim, daffy wives, jolly uncles and termites of the soul, Robin Hoodwinker remembers, on these cheerful and heartbreaking pages, Glacier and the village come to be known as the summer home of Santa Claus.

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About the Author

Born May 18, 1936, in Hollywood, California, eldest son of a prominent family (his grandfather was a founder of General Mills, then Western Airlines, his uncle the creator of Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions and financier of movies in the 1920's and 1930's) passed a childhood marked by social attention and privilege, educated at Choate, wrote his first complete novel at age 14, was soon a published short story writer, reporter, syndicated columnist, international correspondent and by age 19 the youngest newspaper editor in California, hired by Cecil B. DeMille, published first book of poetry, produced verse play and independent film series, then witnessed the fall of his family and loss of both parents which lead to legislation granting no-fault civil divorce; went to Paris in 1961 where The Olympia Press published Stradella - the novel which became a bestseller in France, England and around the world outside America, an integral part of what became known as the sexual revolution and the defeat of First Amendment censorship in the USA. This prose poet wrote some 30 unrevealed novels in the next decades, in 1964 creating a style known as word jazz which became widely imitated, but remained outside New York publishing circles, contributing numerous celebrated works through other authors without personal recognition, even when earning a National Book Award in 1970. In 1997 founded Opus Books to publish good writing, evidence that authors write from their own experience, a record of their times. Jaz has served publishing literature for more than 50 years.

Review

This is a staggering epic of family dysfunction. --Michael J. Ryan

About this edition

• Publisher: Opus Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0966196155
• ISBN 13: 9780966196153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 508
• Editor: Michael J. Ryan
• Illustrator: Debrianna