An Unfinished Season (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ward Just
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1950's
- Setting: Chicago suburbs and downtown
- Principal Characters: Wils Ravan, Teddy Ravan, Jo Ravan, Aurora Brule, Jack Brule, Consuela, Ozias Tilleman
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Teenagers, Divorce, Veterans, Youth, Suburban life, Labor unions, Naivete
- Locales: Chicago, IL
Wils Ravan, age nineteen, lives with his parents in a suburb of Chicago, in a house on the edge of a golf course. His father owns a successful printing business. Wils has been admitted to the University of Chicago as a freshman; he will begin in the fall. For the summer he has a temporary job, obtained through the influence of his father, as a copy boy in the newsroom of a downtown paper. Coming out of his sheltered background, Wils begins to discover a wider world, where it is not at all easy to find one's niche. Ward Just's An Unfinished Season contains a series of formative...
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