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Jay Parini : The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
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Author: Jay Parini
Title: The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Date: 2011-11-01
ISBN: 0307386198
Publisher: Anchor
Latest: 2024/02/13
Weight: 0.79 pounds
Size: 5.08 x 1.14 x 7.87 inches
Edition: Reprint
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With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan.
 
Through the eyes of his long-suffering wife, Lizzie, we are introduced to an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of bestselling tales of seagoing adventures. His epic but ungainly Moby-Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and readers fled. He spends his days trudging the docks of New York as a customs inspector and contemplating his malign literary fate. But within him is stirring, perhaps, one great work yet. . . . In a narrative that shifts seamlessly between Lizzie’s personal account and evocative snapshots of Melville’s crowded life, Parini manages to humanize a giant of letters, while illuminating the source of his matchless creativity.
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