Finding the Bones (Paperback)

Avery Russell

ISBN 10: 1645759601 / ISBN 13: 9781645759607

Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC, 2021

Beschreibung

Paperback. Finding the Bones is a dark romance set against the youth rebellion and revolutionary violence of the 1910s-an era not unlike 1960s' America-where idealistic young men and women seek to create a more just society but often fall victim to retribution or disillusionment. Charlie Everett, a journalist on the make, and Olivia St. James, an ardent feminist and journalist in her own right, find themselves caught in a deadly embrace from which neither can escape. "A fine, sophisticated historical novel from author Avery Russell in which she draws from her family history, especially the life of her journalist father who is Charlie Everett in the novel; her father's first wife portrayed as Olivia St. James; and their mutual friend Maurice Hadley, in real life the early abstract painter Marsden Hartley. Russell's omniscient narrator moves deftly among her substantial cast of characters, showing us the lives of bohemians and expatriates of pre-World War I and beyond. If there is any symbol of the partially thwarted lives that the central characters endure, it is in Hartley's poem 'Finding the Bones, ' which provides the title for the book, where the bones of a dead bird are found with its wings still on and its feathers attached, the last vestiges of a life and an ardor Charlie himself experienced among the bones he hid from everyone. 'Fixed were the wings, ' Hartley wrote; now they are stiffened, and life has moved on to a 'fresh history of stifled things.'" - Townsend Ludington, author of Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist (1992) and Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley (1998); Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781645759607

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Finding the Bones (Paperback)
• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1645759601
• ISBN-13: 9781645759607
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Finding the Bones is a dark romance set against the youth rebellion and revolutionary violence of the 1910s-an era not unlike 1960s' America-where idealistic young men and women seek to create a more just society but often fall victim to retribution or disillusionment. Charlie Everett, a journalist on the make, and Olivia St. James, an ardent feminist and journalist in her own right, find themselves caught in a deadly embrace from which neither can escape. "A fine, sophisticated historical novel from author Avery Russell in which she draws from her family history, especially the life of her journalist father who is Charlie Everett in the novel; her father's first wife portrayed as Olivia St. James; and their mutual friend Maurice Hadley, in real life the early abstract painter Marsden Hartley. Russell's omniscient narrator moves deftly among her substantial cast of characters, showing us the lives of bohemians and expatriates of pre-World War I and beyond. If there is any symbol of the partially thwarted lives that the central characters endure, it is in Hartley's poem 'Finding the Bones,' which provides the title for the book, where the bones of a dead bird are found with its wings still on and its feathers attached, the last vestiges of a life and an ardor Charlie himself experienced among the bones he hid from everyone. 'Fixed were the wings,' Hartley wrote; now they are stiffened, and life has moved on to a 'fresh history of stifled things.'" - Townsend Ludington, author of Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist (1992) and Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley (1998); Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Avery Russell was a program officer for thirty years and director of publications at Carnegie Corporation of New York, the grant-making foundation, where she produced major reports and articles for the public. The author of a Moroccan memoir and dozens of short stories, this is her first novel. Born in North Carolina, she is the daughter of the journalist, teacher, and biographer, Charles Phillips Russell, and niece of the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Paul Green.