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A Place to Come to
A Place to Come to | Robert Penn Warren
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A Place to Come To, Warren's final novel, provides an apologia and a valedictory comment on his career. Abandoning the baroque plots and the complex narrative devices of his middle period, Warren here tells a relatively uncluttered tale of a Southern writer from an obscure Alabama town. Jed Tewksbury's autobiographical narrative describes his career from his humiliating origin as the son of a roistering "redneck" in Dugton, Alabama, through...
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Jed Tewksbury is born dirt poor in Alabama but strives for a place in the “kingdom of the mind” by becoming a classical scholar. His choices box him into a seemingly endless purgatory of solitude, alienation, and disappointment. He serves as a spectator of his own life, searching in war, career, and sex for an identity he can never quite grasp. This autumnal 1977 novel is beautifully written and Jed contains multitudes within his tortured mind.

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