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Passing Away

Tom LeClair

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Description:“In the fierce unfinished business of Kurdistan, Tom LeClair has found the documentary edge and human center that makes Well-Founded Fear a resourceful and moving work of fiction.” —Don DeLillo“For all its flashy ball-handling and dead-on outside shot,Passing Off is a deeply literary work of art and politics, probing identity, representation, ecology, and, of course, our desperate, down-to-the-buzzer game of words.” —Richard PowersWith Passing Away, Tom LeClair—whose reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post and elsewhere—has conceived a novel told in three long stories about men near death: a contemporary middle-aged Vermont policeman, a disgraced Calvin Coolidge after his presidency, and Frederic Tudor, the 79-year-old “Ice King” of nineteenth-century America. Passing Away is a novel because all the stories are written by Michael Keever, the former basketball player, protagonist, and narrator of Passing Off, Passing On, and Passing Through. Like Updike’s Rabbit at Rest, Passing Away is both a stand-alone work and a tetralogy’s final book, a three-headed encounter with finality. While personal and intimate, the stories also present the passing away of places and eras: the mid-century small town, rural Vermont of the late nineteenth century, Boston before the Civil War. Narrated in the first person, each story has a distinctive style: Keever’s sport-inflected vernacular, unexpected stream of consciousness from Coolidge, and Tudor’s aristocratic formality. And like the preceding Passing novels, Passing Away may well be unreliable as its narrators—and Keever, its putative author—struggle to write the truth about the past in the face of death. With his vivid characters in particularized histories, Tom LeClair gives readers imaginative and affecting responses to mortality, what Henry James called “the real distinguished thing.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Passing Away. To get started finding Passing Away, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 146

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Waxing Press

Release: 2018

ISBN: 0998562025

Description: “In the fierce unfinished business of Kurdistan, Tom LeClair has found the documentary edge and human center that makes Well-Founded Fear a resourceful and moving work of fiction.” —Don DeLillo“For all its flashy ball-handling and dead-on outside shot,Passing Off is a deeply literary work of art and politics, probing identity, representation, ecology, and, of course, our desperate, down-to-the-buzzer game of words.” —Richard PowersWith Passing Away, Tom LeClair—whose reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post and elsewhere—has conceived a novel told in three long stories about men near death: a contemporary middle-aged Vermont policeman, a disgraced Calvin Coolidge after his presidency, and Frederic Tudor, the 79-year-old “Ice King” of nineteenth-century America. Passing Away is a novel because all the stories are written by Michael Keever, the former basketball player, protagonist, and narrator of Passing Off, Passing On, and Passing Through. Like Updike’s Rabbit at Rest, Passing Away is both a stand-alone work and a tetralogy’s final book, a three-headed encounter with finality. While personal and intimate, the stories also present the passing away of places and eras: the mid-century small town, rural Vermont of the late nineteenth century, Boston before the Civil War. Narrated in the first person, each story has a distinctive style: Keever’s sport-inflected vernacular, unexpected stream of consciousness from Coolidge, and Tudor’s aristocratic formality. And like the preceding Passing novels, Passing Away may well be unreliable as its narrators—and Keever, its putative author—struggle to write the truth about the past in the face of death. With his vivid characters in particularized histories, Tom LeClair gives readers imaginative and affecting responses to mortality, what Henry James called “the real distinguished thing.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Passing Away. To get started finding Passing Away, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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