All Fall Down (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: James Leo Herlihy
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: Late 1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Adolescence, Suicide, Midwest, Brothers, Boys
- Locales: Florida, Cleveland, OH
Places Discussed
Williams family home. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, the family home, in its moods and changing states of cohesion, reflects the periods of alienation, dislocation, and close community experienced by its occupants and, in a larger sense, by the American family. The first two sentences of the novel read, “It is well known that in every neighborhood in the United States there is at least one house that is special. Special because it is haunted, or because of an act of violence that took place there.” The levels of the house and those who dominate them are...
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