All the Strange Hours (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Loren Eiseley
- First Published: 1975
- Time of Work: 1907–1974
- Setting: Nebraska, California, and Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: Loren Eiseley, Frank Speck
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Autobiography, Science or scientists, Anthropology or anthropologists, Students or student life
- Locales: California, Pennsylvania, Nebraska
Form and Content
After producing nine books on scientific subjects, in his late sixties Loren Eiseley turned to an account of his own life and career. Though All the Strange Hours may strike the young adult reader as a highly unusual autobiography, its subtitle, The Excavation of a Life, illuminates its complex structure. Just as Eiseley, an anthropologist, had reconstructed the life-styles of vanished tribes by examining scattered and fragmentary remains, he narrates his own life by centering on scattered, isolated experiences and images that remained vivid in...
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