All Fall Down (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Leo Herlihy
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: Late 1950’s
- Setting: Cleveland, Ohio
- Principal Characters: Clinton Williams, Ralph Williams, Annabel Williams, Berry-Berry, Echo O’Brien, Shirley
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Adolescence, Suicide, Midwest, Brothers, Boys
- Locales: Florida, Cleveland, OH
The Story:
Clinton Williams was fourteen years old. His brother, Berry-Berry, was away “on his travels,” begun shortly after his twenty-first birthday. The Williams family had recently moved into a house in a different section of Cleveland. Clinton was afraid that Berry-Berry would not be able to find the new house if he should return, and as a gesture of quiet protest he stayed away from school for fifty-seven consecutive days. In the daytime, he loafed in the Aloha Sweet Shop, recording in his notebooks everything he saw or overheard. At home he eavesdropped on his...
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