The Hair of Harold Roux : A Novel
2011
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In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel hailed as a masterpiece, it deserves a new generation of readers. In The Hair of Harold Roux, we are introduced to Aaron Benham: college professor, writer, husband, and father. Aaron-when he can focus-is atwork on a novel, The Hair of Harold Roux, a thinly disguised autobiographical account of his college days. In Aaron's novel, his alter ego, Allard Benson, courts a young woman, despite the efforts of his rival, the earnest and balding Harold Roux-a GI recently returned from World War II with an unfortunate hairpiece. What unfolds through Aaron's mind, his past and present, and his nested narratives is a fascinating exploration of sex and friendship, responsibility and regret, youth and middle age, and the essential fictions that see us through.'Williams's novel is terrific: it is sweet, funny and sexy... Williams is an accomplished magician.'-Newsweek'Everywhere the language flows from the purest vernacular to the elevations demanded by distilled perception. Our largest sympathies are roused, tormented and consoled.'-Washington Post Book World'A wonderfully old-fashioned writer... that dinosaur among contemporary writers of fiction, an actual storyteller.'-John Irving
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The Hair of Harold Roux : A Novel
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Williams, Thomas |
Veröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-1-60819-583-1 (print) ; 978-1-60819-728-6 (electronic) |
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