Thomas Rogers

The Confession of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the National Book Award: A witty novel of coming of age during wartime in America In the words of its "author," Samuel Heather, the Confession is a "comical historical pastoral" that chronicles the struggles of growing up the son of a Midwestern bishop. ("My father's daily work was to be a father. It was excruciating.") Samuel escapes Missouri to attend Harvard, where he gets himself expelled for exploding a footbridge over the Charles River. He is soon sent to fight in Korea and lands in a prison camp. Samuel's picaresque coming of age-by turns both funny and poignant-is truly the tale of "a child of the century."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480449817
• Artikelnr.: 44663912

Autorenporträt

Thomas Rogers (1927-2007) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was the author of four novels, including the National Book Award finalists The Pursuit of Happinessand The Confession of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather. His third novel is At the Shores, and his final work, Jerry Engels, is its sequel. David Susskind produced a film based on The Pursuit of Happinessstarring Barbara Hershey and Michael Sarrazin. Rogers graduated cum laude from Harvard University and received his doctorate from the University of Iowa in the program that is now the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1969, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a frequent guest at Yaddo and the Camargo Foundation.He had essays published in the American Review, Esquire, the Iowa Review, and the American Scholar. He taught creative writing at Pennsylvania State University for three decades as a professor of English and fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.