An Autobiographical Novel (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Rexroth
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1905-1927
- Setting: Indiana, Michigan, Chicago, Ohio, New York, and Seattle
- Principal Characters: Kenneth Rexroth
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Current events, Memory, Politics, Literature, Art or artists, Religion, Midwest, Manners or customs, Social life, Lifestyles, Bohemianism
Form and Content
The carefully descriptive title of this work suggests its format: It is autobiographical in the sense that it is a factual narrative of the first twenty-one years of Kenneth Rexroth’s life—beginning actually three generations before his birth in 1905, and ending three weeks after the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927—and it introduces and identifies dozens of people who touched upon that life. It is a novel in that, though the book proceeds chronologically, the reader is always conscious of selectivity and rearrangement, aware...
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