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Rodin's Debutante

by Just, Ward

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011-03-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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Tommy Ogden, a Gatsbyesque character living in a mansion outside robber-baron-era Chicago, declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Rodin and announces instead his intention to endow a boys’ school. Ogden’s decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Just’s emotionally potent new novel.  Lee’s life decisions—to become a sculptor, to sojourn in the mean streets of the South Side, to marry into the haute-intellectual culture of Hyde Park—play out against the crude glamour of midcentury Chicago. Just’s signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his four years at Ogden Hall School under the purview, in the school library, of a bust known as Rodin’s Debutante. And, especially, as he meets again a childhood friend, the victim of a brutal sexual assault of which she has no memory. It was a crime marking the end of Lee’s boyhood and the beginning of his understanding—so powerfully under the surface of Just’s masterly story—that how and what we remember add up to nothing less than our very lives.

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Title
Rodin's Debutante
Author
Just, Ward
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New
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ISBN 10
0547504195
ISBN 13
9780547504193
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
Orlando, Fl, U.s.a.
Date Published
2011-03-01

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