A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and
how it shaped his most beloved works
Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in
1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on
the bustling West Coast--an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a
prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating
the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books
"The Call of the""Wild," "White Fang," and "The Sea-Wolf."
The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches
tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He
chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the
deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer
in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under
constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader
for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to
spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined.
Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who
produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a
voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery.
In "Jack London: An American Life," the noted Jack London
scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist
lost behind the myth--at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man
alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore
never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper
place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American
novelist in his full fire and glory.
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