Rodin's Debutante
Tommy Ogden, a Gatsbyesque character living in a mansion outside robber-baron-era Chicago, declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Rodin and announces instead his intention to endow a boysa school. Ogdenas decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Justas emotionally potent new novel. Leeas life decisionsato become a sculptor, to sojourn in the mean streets of the South Side, to marry into the haute-intellectual culture of Hyde Parkaplay out against the crude glamour of midcentury Chicago. Justas signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his four years at Ogden Hall School under the purview, in the school library, of a bust known as Rodinas Debutante. And, especially, as he meets again a childhood friend, the victim of a brutal sexual assault of which she has no memory. It was a crime marking the end of Leeas boyhood and the beginning of his understandingaso powerfully under the surface of Justas masterly storyathat how and what we remember add up to nothing less than our very lives.The boys had given him a souvenir all right, and then he remembered that souvenir in French meant amemory.a Probably his whole life people would look at him and then look away, wondering at once what had happened and concluding, anbsp;...
| Title | : | Rodin's Debutante |
| Author | : | Ward Just |
| Publisher | : | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2011-03-01 |
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