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Late City - The last surviving veteran of WWI revisits his life in this moving story of love and fatherhood from the Pulitzer Prize winner (Paperback)
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Late City - The last surviving veteran of WWI revisits his life in this moving story of love and fatherhood from the Pulitzer Prize winner (Paperback)
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A visionary and poignant novel centered 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. Sam grows up in
Louisiana, with a harsh father, who he comes to resent both for his
physical abuse and for what Sam eventually perceives as his flawed
morality. Eager to escape and prove himself, Sam enlists in the
army as a sniper while still underage. The hardness his father
instilled in him helps him make it out of World War I alive, but,
as he recounts these tales on his deathbed, we come to realize that
it also prevents him from contending with the emotional wounds of
war. Back in the US, Sam moves to Chicago to begin a career as a
newspaperman that will bring him close to all the major historical
turns of the twentieth century. There he meets his wife and has a
son, whose fate counters Sam's at almost every turn. 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 in this heart-rending novel from the Pulitzer Prize
winner.
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