- Fiction, Widowers, College teachers, College teachers in fiction
"Portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and has permitted that grief to enlarge him."--Jacket.
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Contemplative, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060929657
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“Since my early teens I've associated everything to do with college, the "academic life," with certain images borne toward me, I suppose, from the TV screen, in particular from the films of the 1930s they used to broadcast relentlessly when I was a boy, and especially from a single scene: Fresh-faced young people come in from an autumn night to stand around the fireplace in the home of a beloved professor.”
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