Praeder's Letters

by James Baker Hall

Book Overview

Paul Praeder--an immensely complex character with the bravado of a Hemingway hero, the literary erudition and despair of Berryman's Dream Songs persona, and the dark, self-destructive magnetism of Conrad's Captain Kurtz--is a new and disturbing addition to the pantheon of American literary characters. His story unfolds over his 30-year correspondence with a young poet, and it is a story of lost moral compass, in which artistic integrity is traded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889330795
• ISBN13: 9781889330792
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.5"