Dec 30, 2009

All the Strange Hours | All the Strange Hours

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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All the Strange Hours | All the Strange Hours

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Form and Content

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