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Late City (Hardcover)
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Late City (Hardcover)
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A 115-year-old man lies on his deathbed as the 2016 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 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 U.S., 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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