Description
| Product ID: | 9780857304896 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Late City |
| Subtitle: | The last surviving veteran of WWI revisits his life in this moving story of love and fatherhood from the Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Olen Butler |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | First World War fiction, First World War fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Historical fiction, Sagas, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler... A visionary and poignant novel centred around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam''s life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to his fledgling newspaper career in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties and the decades that follow, snippets of history are brought sharply into focus.As he contemplates his relationships - with his parents, his brothers in arms, his wife, his editor, and most importantly, his son - Sam is amazed at what he still has left to learn about himself after all these years. |
| Imprint Name: | No Exit Press |
| Publisher Name: | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-01-27 |
