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The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

Or, a Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life--A Novel

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

Or, a Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life--A Novel

By: Robert J. Begiebing

A picaresque novel of the remarkable life of a liberated 19th-century woman.

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1611683742

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9781611683745

A Berkshire Boyhood

By: Begiebing, Robert

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Neither celebrity-gawk, “misery memoir,” nor confessional melodrama, A Berkshire Boyhood is more reminiscent of such memoirs as Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life and Emily Fox Gordon’s Are You Happy? In fact, A Berkshire Boyhood will strike readers as a parallel universe to Gordon’s book, her own story of growing up in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as a privileged faculty brat and young girl in the 1950s. Berkshire Boyhood is a boy’s story of growing up from working class roots in that same place and time. It explores family troubles arising out of the wounds and separations of World War II, ethnic religiosity, and adolescent sexuality (1950s variety). Its deeper appeal comes from our curiosity about the 1950s and the Boomer generation, from the fraught relations between that generation and their parents, who fought WWII, from our interest in the influence of landscape on human development, and from a vision of post-war years as a decade seething with the anger and dissent of an incipient counterculture that would explode the sixties.

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164

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Anaphora Literary Press

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1681140527

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9781681140520

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

By: Robert J. Begiebing

A novel of art and obsession in eighteenth-century New England.

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UPNE

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1611683750

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9781611683752

Norman Mailer at 100

Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

By: Robert J. Begiebing

Winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author’s centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Begiebing lays out how this polymath author’s work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nation’s founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism. The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and Begiebing’s own interview with Mailer from 1983. Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations about his ideas and art, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Kate Millett, and Joan Didion. By encouraging a reconsideration of his career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, Norman Mailer at 100 forges a new path toward appreciating the author’s achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.

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LSU Press

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0807178950

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9780807178959

The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

By: Robert J. Begiebing

The time is the late 1640s, the place, the New England coast. A young woman has been found dead, stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely suspect, who has disappeared into the wilderness. Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place in colonial New Hampshire, Robert J. Begiebing's THE STRANGE DEATH OF MISTRESS COFFIN is at once a spellbinding mystery and a fascinating evocation of life in early America. "Unusual and mesmerizing. A striking and original work by a gifted writer with an extraordinary feeling for the past."--E. Annie Proulx, The New York Times Book Review; "Begiebing illuminates 'the dark and wonderful intricacy' of the human heart."-- Yankee. A MYSTERY BOOK CLUB MAIN SELECTION and a LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

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Algonquin Books

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1616202041

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9781616202040

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

A Novel

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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A Novel

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A novel of art and obsession in eighteenth-century New England.

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1584652845

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The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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Norman Mailer at 100

Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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Norman Mailer at 100

Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

By: Robert J. Begiebing

Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author’s centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Begiebing lays out how this polymath author’s work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nation’s founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism. The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and Begiebing’s own interview with Mailer from 1983. Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations about his ideas and art, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Kate Millett, and Joan Didion. By encouraging a reconsideration of his career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, Norman Mailer at 100 forges a new path toward appreciating the author’s achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.

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LSU Press

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0807178969

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A Berkshire Boyhood

By: Begiebing, Robert

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The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

Or, a Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life--A Novel

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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Or, a Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life--A Novel

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A picaresque novel of the remarkable life of a liberated 19th-century woman.

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The Turner Erotica

A Biographical Novel

By: Robert J. Begiebing

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The Turner Erotica

A Biographical Novel

By: Robert J. Begiebing

J. M. W. Turner, Britain's greatest and most revolutionary artist, has died. While reviewing the contents of Turner's vast artistic legacy for Britain's National Gallery, John Ruskin, Turner's greatest supporter, discovers a considerable body of previously unknown erotic sketches. Both shocked and outraged, Ruskin abruptly burns the materials he finds offensive. However, through betrayal and theft, some of the erotica has escaped the flames... William James Stillman, a young American artist and diplomat, pursues a dangerous quest across Britain, Europe, and the Eastern United States to save the remaining sketches. He is convinced that the surviving erotic studies are not only invaluable to British art history, but contain a secret clue to the master's celebrated body of public work. Unlocking this secret becomes an obsession that threatens to consume Stillman and blind him to his obligations to his friends, his family, and even to himself. Based on actual people and events, this thrilling work features not only Turner himself, but such luminary characters as Allegra Fullerton, the Rossetti brothers, other artists from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Britain's greatest swordsman and adventurer, Sir Richard Burton.

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0983300240

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9780983300243

Book's by Robert J. Begiebing

The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

A Berkshire Boyhood

A Berkshire Boyhood

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

Norman Mailer at 100

Norman Mailer at 100

The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction

The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

Norman Mailer at 100

Norman Mailer at 100

A Berkshire Boyhood

A Berkshire Boyhood

The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton

The Turner Erotica

The Turner Erotica

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