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Author: Ward Just
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004M5HKI4

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 boys' school. Get Rodin's Debutante literature books for free.
Ogden's decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Just's emotionally potent new novel.A

Lee's life decisions-to become a sculptor, to sojourn in the mean streets of the South Side, to marry into the haute-intellectual culture of Hyde Park-play out against the crude glamour of midcentury Chicago. Just's signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his Check Rodin's Debutante our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

Rodin's Debutante Download

Ogden's decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Just's emotionally potent new novel Just's signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his

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