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About the Author:
Alan Hager entered Harvard College with sophomore standing, majoring in American history and literature. On discovering his main interest was in the literature of the British Isles, he became an English major and stayed an extra year. After graduation he took a sequence of courses at the Sorbonne and taught jazz music in French at the Lyee d'Ivry in a suburb of Paris. Following military service as an Army OCS air defense platoon leader and staff officer in Germany, he earned a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, later teaching courses in composition and Renaissance literature on all levels at the University of Oklahoma, Loyola University of Chicago, and SUNY Cortland where he is a professor of English. In 1976, he was an inaugural student at the School of Criticism and Theory at the University of California at Irvine. Hager has represented Loyola at the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library, where he is soon to be a fellow.
Review:
Alan Hager's private eye story will please any reader who enjoys a fast, saucy dialogue, colorful narrative, and a generally breezy experience. --Richard Wilbur, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus
A hell of a read! Great and vivid characters, drawn powerfully from the authentic, complex life of Americans, told by a narrator of extraordinary perception and insight. Like every fine classic of American literature, The Toll Booth is by turns ironic, mysterious, confounding, intriguing and revelatory. The Toll Booth deserves to be read widely. --Kevin Klose, President and CEO, National Public Radio
In The Toll Booth, Alan Hager successfully combines the suspense of a thriller with the charm of a comedy of manners set in a fictional landscape somewhere between Scott Fitzgerald's West Egg and Richard Ford's Haddam. All of the many characters--among them a worldly 13-year-old charmer, a priapic ex-CIA operative, various Auschwitz survivors and ex-Nazis are intelligent and unpredictable, and their repartee is witty, sparkling, and often wise. Every sentence of this novel is a small delight. --George Blecher, Eurozine writer on American culture and politics
A hell of a read! Great and vivid characters, drawn powerfully from the authentic, complex life of Americans, told by a narrator of extraordinary perception and insight. Like every fine classic of American literature, The Toll Booth is by turns ironic, mysterious, confounding, intriguing and revelatory. The Toll Booth deserves to be read widely. --Kevin Klose, President and CEO, National Public Radio
In The Toll Booth, Alan Hager successfully combines the suspense of a thriller with the charm of a comedy of manners set in a fictional landscape somewhere between Scott Fitzgerald's West Egg and Richard Ford's Haddam. All of the many characters--among them a worldly 13-year-old charmer, a priapic ex-CIA operative, various Auschwitz survivors and ex-Nazis are intelligent and unpredictable, and their repartee is witty, sparkling, and often wise. Every sentence of this novel is a small delight. --George Blecher, Eurozine writer on American culture and politics
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- PublisherSpear's Mint Editions
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1933117087
- ISBN 13 9781933117089
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages293
- EditorRobert Spear
- IllustratorAngela Farley
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