Raw Material: The Autobiographical Examination of an Artist's Journey into Maturity
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The long, uneasy armistice between two world wars was a trying time for literary artists, particularly for those young men who came to maturity in that period of economic and social upheaval. Oliver La Farge's frank and honest personal narrative is a typical life of one born into the easy world of Newport, New York, Groton, and Harvard, dumped into the melting pot of the Great Depression, and then slammed up against the global war. His purpose "to record the America of one individual" and to set down the raw material from which the writer derives the finished product he offers to the world, is vividly fulfilled in this book. In an Appreciation appearing in this new edition, John Pen La Farge says: "In his autobiography, "Raw Material," Father wrote a superior account of one man's life. As Mother pointed out, it was superior because it was not a mere accounting of what, when, how, and in what order, rather, it was the account of how the raw material of one boy grew into a man, a man whose life both displayed and sought out true integrity."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0865346739
ISBN13:9780865346734
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Sunstone Press
Length:260 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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