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An Unfinished Season: A Novel
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- “Some dust jacket wear. Reading Copy.”
- ISBN
- 0618036695
- ISBN10
- 0618036695
- ISBN13
- 9780618036691
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- Book Title
- Unfinished Season : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Sagas, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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"The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon, a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption. Even the small-town family could not escape the nationwide suspicion and dread of "the enemy within." In rural Quarterday, on the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Teddy Ravan -- gruff, unapproachable, secure in his knowledge of the world -- is confronting a strike and even death threats from union members who work at his printing business. Wilson, in the summer before college, finds himself straddling three worlds when he takes a job at a newspaper: the newsroom where working-class reporters find class struggle at the heart of every issue, the glittering North Shore debutante parties where he spends his nights, and the growing cold war between his parents at home. These worlds collide when he falls in love with the headstrong daughter of a renowned psychiatrist with a frightful past in World War II. Tragedy strikes her family, and the revelation of secrets calls into question everything Wilson once believed. From a distinguished chronicler of American social history and the political world, An Unfinished Season is a brilliant exploration of culture, politics, and the individual conscience.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618036695
ISBN-13
9780618036691
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30224666
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unfinished Season : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, General
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3560.U75u54 2004
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
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"One of Just's best works: stuffed with surprises, sparkling with insights." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "He steeps his sentences in the rhythms of 1950s jazz....the result is Just's most trenchant read to date... The Village Voice, "One of Just's best works: stuffed with surprises, sparkling with insights." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "He steeps his sentences in the rhythms of 1950s jazz....the result is Juste(tm)s most trenchant read to date...e The Village Voice, He steeps his sentences in the rhythms of 1950s jazz.the result is Just's most trenchant read to date, "One of Just's best works: stuffed with surprises, sparkling with insights." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "He steeps his sentences in the rhythms of 1950s jazz....the result is Just's most trenchant read to date..." The Village Voice, "He steeps his sentences in the rhythms of 1950s jazzhellip;.the result is Just"s most trenchant read to datehellip;", Just's novels ( Echo House ; A Dangerous Friend ; etc.) never exceed a tidy length. But they contain such a deep understanding of the long arm of history, the pernicious abuse of power and the folly of human nature that their intellectual and emotional weight should be measured in metaphorical tonnage. An assured chronicler of the American character, in his 14th novel Just returns to his own roots in the Midwest, examining the heartland as a state of mind. In the 1950s, narrator Wils Ravan's family lives in a Chicago suburb. At 19, about to graduate from high school, Wils is an observer of his parents' strained marriage and his father Teddy's stubborn resolve to defeat the union organizers behind the strike at his printing factory. Wils's summer job is as a copy boy at a Chicago tabloid, where he becomes aware of the routine corruption in city government and finds himself complicit in the yellow journalism that destroys reputations. On another level, he attends dozens of country club dances given for debutantes on the North Shore. At one of these events he meets Aurora Brule, the strong-willed daughter of a mysteriously aloof society psychiatrist, Jason "Jack" Brule, and they fall in love. Jack Brule, meanwhile, becomes the novel's most compelling character. Withdrawn, secretive, obsessive and "passionately coiled," he hides a harrowing memory that explodes at great cost. The summer's events leave Wils ruefully disillusioned and aware of his lost innocence, but committed to the social and ethical code that will guide his life. It's always a pleasure to read Just's prose-crisp and intelligent, animated by dry humor and by a realism that is too humane to be cynical. This novel, with its resonant questions about the class divisions that most Americans refuse to acknowledge, is one of his most trenchant works to date., "One of Just's best works: stuffed with surprises, sparkling with insights." Kirkus Reviews, Starred He steeps his sentences in the rhythms of 1950s jazz….the result is Just's most trenchant read to date…" The Village Voice, Every once in a while -- not often, for sure -- an author does a reviewer a favor and writes a book with such elegance, élan and acuity that the only way to review it -- to give readers some sense of the pleasures that await them in it -- is to quote from it, at length and with gratitude. John Gregory Dunne did that a couple of months ago with another novel about the heartland, Nothing Lost ; now Ward Just does it with An Unfinished Season . A beautiful, wise book.
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
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Lccn
2004-042722
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Series
. Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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