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The Hair of Harold Roux (Hardscrabble Books)

by Thomas Williams

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Publisher Comments:

"In fiction one plays a strange game with ugliness and fear."

Synopsis:

Aaron Benham--professor, novelist, friend, mentor, family man, and sometime idealist--is supposed to be working on his new novel, The Hair of Harold Roux. But instead, tormented by the chaos of his present and the demons of his past, he is riding his motorcycle too fast, drinking too much, and thinking too often and deeply. Through Aaron's rich, if angst-ridden, mind we discover that his novel-within-a-novel is really a thinly disguised account of his own turbulent post-World War II collegiate days. Harold Roux, a naive but well-meaning ex-GI who hides his premature baldness under an ill-fitting hairpiece, and Allard Benson, Aaron's fictional alter ego, become locked in what Aaron sardonically describes as a simple story of seduction, rape, madness, and murder--the usual human preoccupations.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780874517019
Author:
Simpson, Thomas William
Author:
Williams, Thomas
Author:
Simpson, Thomas William
Publisher:
University Press of New England
Location:
Hanover, NH :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
New england
Subject:
New England Fiction.
Copyright:
1995
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Univ PR of New
Series:
Hardscrabble Books
Series Volume:
no. 6757
Publication Date:
February 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
383
Dimensions:
8.41x5.54x.81 in. .97 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , Aaron Benham--professor, novelist, friend, mentor, family man, and sometime idealist--is supposed to be working on his new novel, The Hair of Harold Roux. But instead, tormented by the chaos of his present and the demons of his past, he is riding his motorcycle too fast, drinking too much, and thinking too often and deeply. Through Aaron's rich, if angst-ridden, mind we discover that his novel-within-a-novel is really a thinly disguised account of his own turbulent post-World War II collegiate days. Harold Roux, a naive but well-meaning ex-GI who hides his premature baldness under an ill-fitting hairpiece, and Allard Benson, Aaron's fictional alter ego, become locked in what Aaron sardonically describes as a simple story of seduction, rape, madness, and murder--the usual human preoccupations.
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