Late city : a novel / Robert Olen Butler.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802158826
- 080215882X
- 813/.54Â 23
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Iola Public Library Adult Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | F Butler, Robert (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Noted: Mud stains on top corner of pages. 02-26-2024 | 34311002903723 |
"A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties and the decades that follow, moments of history are brought sharply into focus. Sam grows up in Louisiana with a harsh father and escapes by enlisting in the army as a sniper. The hardness his father instilled in him helps him make it out of World War I alive, but we come to realize that it also prevents him from contending with the emotional wounds of war. Back in the U.S., Sam moves to Chicago and begins a career as a newspaperman, meets his wife, and has a son, whose fate counters Sam's at almost every turn. As he contemplates his relationships-with his parents, his brothers in arms, his wife, his editor, and most importantly, his son-Sam is amazed at what he still has left to learn about himself after all these years in this heart-rending novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner"--
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