Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater

by Seth Lerer

Book Overview

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened Father and Son, the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's Prospero's Son is, as fits our latter days, altogether more complicated, layered, and multivalent, but at its heart is that same problem: the fraught relationship between fathers and sons. At the same time,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022601441X
• ISBN13: 9780226014418
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"