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The Unknown, Remembered Gate (Paperback)
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The Unknown, Remembered Gate (Paperback)
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In The Unknown Remembered Gate, a man in his early thirties is
undergoing a crisis of confidence; his uncertainty has been
deepened by the recent discovery of an unsent letter he had written
about a year earlier to his best friend in his "home town." As the
protagonist re-reads the letter he realizes that by immersing
himself in academia (he is studying literary criticism) he has been
veiling deep feelings of inadequacy. He considers a return to his
"home town" as the means of re-establishing. When we meet him in a
bar in San Francisco, he is edging closer to a decision. San
Francisco is a place where he has been many times before, and it is
the place where he last saw his best friend to whom he had written
the newly found letter. Drinking scotch and listening to the jazz
being played over the bar sound system, the narrator escorts us on
a memorial journey through his formative years, his rite of passage
from adolescent to young adult. We learn from revelations in his
narrative that for the past several years in academia, he has been
exposed to a post-modern world in which he has begun to feel more
and more out of joint. Through his memory we return to his genesis,
meet his parents, and are taken along on a somewhat surreal journey
that he made at the age of 13 with his mother and brothers to his
"home town." He provides us with a description of the physical
contours of the town and how those contours circumscribed his sense
of space. Once "at home" in his memory, he explores his
experiences: friendships, struggles for identity, fantasies, love,
teachers, heart breaks, and shattered dreams. By the end of the
novel, the narrator has taken us on a long and arduous Odyssean
journey back to his beginnings where he hopes he can find himself,
perhaps, as T.S. Eliot tells us in "Little Gidding," the fourth of
the Four Quartets, from which the title of the novel is taken, for
the first time.
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Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2010 |
First published: |
September 2010 |
Authors: |
Peter Allen
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
266 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4528-7286-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4528-7286-4 |
Barcode: |
9781452872865 |
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