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Synopsis
Jay Parini recreates Herman Melville's adventurous life and tragic death. Opening with an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville wreaking havoc in his New York home, it ranges from his adventures on the South Seas to trudging the docks of New York as a customs inspector. It is told from the perspective of Lizzie, his wife.
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About the Author
Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels also include Benjamins Crossing and The Apprentice Lover. His volumes of poetry include The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. In addition to biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. He edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.
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Who would have thought it would have taken until now, the twenty-first century, to get a clear view of America's most mysterious novelist, Herman Melville? We have it now, through the magic of Jay Parini's superior novel -- Gore Vidal In fiction and biography, Jay Parini has brought to life Tolstoy, Frost, Faulkner, Benjamin, and Steinbeck. Now he has added Herman Melville to that remarkable pantheon, and the tale is surprising, insightful, and deeply moving. Melville has never seemed more alive to me - and more human. -- Chris Bohjalian, author of Secrets of Eden, The Double Bind, and Midwives Once again Jay Parini has taken us in literary imagination, cultural history, and biography through his ingenious fiction. In elegant and moving prose, Parini opens up Melville..... A novel of startling and inventive journeys, and no reader will come away from it seeing Melville the same. -- Peter Balakian, author of Black Dog of Fate Jay Parini, against all odds, captures his white whale of a subject and then frees him for us to behold. [He] re-animates Melville to startling effect: the creator walks as a character; the genius turns back into a husband; imperishable literature springs from the accidents of life. -- Tom Mallon, author of Fellow Travelers and Henry and Clara
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 184767979X
- ISBN 13 9781847679796
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages454
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