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An Unfinished Season
(Book, 2004)
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It's the 1950s in Ward Just's 14th novel, and young Wilson Ravan is killing time the summer before he's due to go off to college. He has a job at a newspaper where he becomes immersed in Chicago politics, including a strike at the printing company his father owns. Contrasted to all this is his high-powered social life, and the young women he meets among the city's upper crust. When Wilson falls in love with one of them, the novel's events culminate in a stunning revelation that shakes up his view of the world--a world that is in the process of stunning changes., Set in the 1950s, when Ward Just's narrator, Wilson Ravan, is just 19, AN UNFINISHED SEASON traces a series of events in the lives of Wilson and his father, Teddy. Teddy owns a printing company threatened by union members striking for strikers. Young Wilson has a summer job at a local newspaper, where for the first time in his life he mixes with working-class colleagues and begins to see that the world in which he has grown up isn't quite as morally coherent as he'd thought. At the same time, he falls in love with a debutante named Aurora, whose father is hiding a shattering secret from his own past. The story of innocence lost but a measure of truth found, AN UNFINISHED SEASON is Just's 14th novel, and takes place in the Midwest, near Chicago, where he himself grew up. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
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First Line: "The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago."
Industry Reviews
"...Just, supple as ever, takes coming-of-age material and puts his distinctive stamp on it....One of Just's best works: stuffed with surprises, sparkling with insights."
Kirkus (05/01/2004)
"It's always a pleasure to read Just's prose--crisp and intelligent, animated by dry humor and by a realism that is too humane to be cynical. This novel, with its resonant questions about the class divisions that most Americans refuse to acknowledge, is one of his most trenchant works to date."
Publishers Weekly (05/17/2004)
"What is once again remarkable about this writer are the graceful figure-eights he skates around his bone-deep knowledge of the worst about us, our Calibans and Brothers Grimm."
Harper's - John Leonard (08/01/2004)
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