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The Burdens of Aeneas: A Son's Memoir of Duty and Love
by Abbot, James C., Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0881466573
- ISBN 13
- 9780881466577
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xvi, 304pp. Light rubbing, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sticker to front and rear cover of jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Corners of boards are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
"When the bullets start flying, I hope the first one gets you." The man in the crosshairs was the author's father. It was an era of seismic social change in the American South. Four decades later, his son visited the National September 11 Museum. In a young firefighter's heroism on 9/11, the author glimpsed a truth about his father's lifelong devotion to duty, law, and justice. So he sat down and began writing him letters.
THE BURDENS OF AENEAS is that series of letters--a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays, invented conversations, reminiscences, interior monologues, and vivid descriptions of life in a vanishing America. Part memoir, part extended reflection on paternal duty and love, it breaks new ground in blending deeply personal writing with scholarly meditation on a masterwork of world literature. That masterpiece is Virgil's AENEID, second only to the Bible in influence upon the arts and culture of the West. Its epic hero suffers grievous personal losses to fulfill the mission assigned him by fate: to become the forefather of the Romans and their vast empire.
Spanning three millennia and four continents, THE BURDENS OF AENEAS fuses this ancient tale with the story of a small town lawyer fighting two battles--one with benighted attitudes in the South and another with his own demons--while it ponders the tug of memory and power of narrative. In the end, readers are offered a timeless story of loss and hope--the hope that one day, our losses may be made good.
THE BURDENS OF AENEAS was chosen the 2019 finalist for Georgia Author of the Year Awards in Memoir.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
"When the bullets start flying, I hope the first one gets you." The man in the crosshairs was the author's father. It was an era of seismic social change in the American South. Four decades later, his son visited the National September 11 Museum. In a young firefighter's heroism on 9/11, the author glimpsed a truth about his father's lifelong devotion to duty, law, and justice. So he sat down and began writing him letters.
THE BURDENS OF AENEAS is that series of letters--a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays, invented conversations, reminiscences, interior monologues, and vivid descriptions of life in a vanishing America. Part memoir, part extended reflection on paternal duty and love, it breaks new ground in blending deeply personal writing with scholarly meditation on a masterwork of world literature. That masterpiece is Virgil's AENEID, second only to the Bible in influence upon the arts and culture of the West. Its epic hero suffers grievous personal losses to fulfill the mission assigned him by fate: to become the forefather of the Romans and their vast empire.
Spanning three millennia and four continents, THE BURDENS OF AENEAS fuses this ancient tale with the story of a small town lawyer fighting two battles--one with benighted attitudes in the South and another with his own demons--while it ponders the tug of memory and power of narrative. In the end, readers are offered a timeless story of loss and hope--the hope that one day, our losses may be made good.
THE BURDENS OF AENEAS was chosen the 2019 finalist for Georgia Author of the Year Awards in Memoir.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11894
- Title
- The Burdens of Aeneas: A Son's Memoir of Duty and Love
- Author
- Abbot, James C., Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0881466573
- ISBN 13
- 9780881466577
- Publisher
- Mercer University Press
- Place of Publication
- Macon
- Date Published
- 2018
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
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Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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