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- Correction of Drift: A Novel in Stories
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Explores the lives behind the headlines of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, evoking anew the scope of tragedy through the vision of literary fiction.
Every character brings a different past life to the event, be it a life of celebrity, or of misfortune and obscurity. There is Anne Morrow Lindbergh—daughter of a millionaire, the shy poet who married a national hero; Charles Lindbergh—the rough-and-tumble Minnesota barnstormer, who at age twenty-five made the first transatlantic flight, bringing him world-wide prestige; Violet—the skittish family maid with a curious attachment to the boy and a secret life that lapses into hysteria and self-destruction; and the kidnappers—an assembly of misfits with their own histories of misery. All are bound by the violence, turmoil, and mystery of the child’s disappearance as it becomes evident that each life has been irrevocably changed. Patterns of bereavement and loss illuminate these stories: despair at the death of a child; the retreat into seclusion; the comfort and the desolation of a marriage. But the heart of this novel is the far-reaching nature of tragedy, and the ways the characters go on to live—or end—their lives.
Table of Contents
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- In the Hands of the Pigman
- pp. 19-40
- Correction of Drift
- pp. 41-60
- Boy Is Gute, Etc.
- pp. 61-72
- Wanderlust
- pp. 97-118
- In the Sitting Room
- pp. 119-138
- Keeper of the Cormorant
- pp. 139-158
- Back Cover
- p. 191
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668057
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661423
MARC Record
OCLC
427564223
Pages
189
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2008