Remembrance Rock (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1607-1945
- Setting: England and America
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Colonies or colonization, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New England, Polygamy or bigamy, England or English people, American Revolution, Civil War, Fathers, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Grandparents or grandchildren, Epidemics, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Printing, Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Locales: United States, England
Characters Discussed
Orville Brand Windom, affectionately called Bowbong by his grandson. A former Supreme Court justice, he is an independent, idealistic, and whimsical man with a deep interest in the American past and future. In his yard, he keeps a huge boulder surrounded by earth representing the crises of American culture. The fictitious author of the novel’s three stories, he wills his manuscript to his grandson.
Raymond Windom, his intelligent and sensitive grandson. A pilot in World War II, he returns home exhausted and cynical, but his grandfather’s...
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