Java Head - Hergesheimer, Joseph
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In the mid-19th century, the Ammidon and Dunsack families of Salem, Massachusetts, have experienced very different fortunes in the merchant sailing trade to the Far East. The successful Ammidons revel in the captaincy of their adventurous and restless son, Gerrit. The Dunsacks' future rests on the shoulders of the opium-addicted and vindictive son Edward. But as Gerrit returns from a voyage to China, he brings with him something that will shake the staid society of Salem and his family's position in it, something far more potent than Edward Dunsack's opium.

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In the mid-19th century, the Ammidon and Dunsack families of Salem, Massachusetts, have experienced very different fortunes in the merchant sailing trade to the Far East. The successful Ammidons revel in the captaincy of their adventurous and restless son, Gerrit. The Dunsacks' future rests on the shoulders of the opium-addicted and vindictive son Edward. But as Gerrit returns from a voyage to China, he brings with him something that will shake the staid society of Salem and his family's position in it, something far more potent than Edward Dunsack's opium.
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Joseph Hergesheimer was an American author who lived from February 15, 1880, to April 25, 1954. He was best known for writing realistic stories about the hedonistic lives of the rich. It was February 15, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that Hergesheimer was born. He went to a Quaker school for school and then graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Lay Anthony, Hergesheimer's first book, came out in 1914. The next book, Three Black Pennys, came out in 1917. It was a fictional account of the lives of three generations of Pennsylvania ironmasters. It established the author's way of writing about upper-class people using what he called "aestheticism," a style of flowery description. Three Black Pennies was also the first American book that Alfred A. Knopf, a new publishing house, put out. The books Java Head (1919), Linda Condon (1919), and Balisand (1924) by Hergesheimer also got good reviews.