· Ward Just’s 17th novel, “Rodin’s Debutante,” neatly avoids this problem while chucking aside almost every convention and cliché associated with the www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Just's signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his four years at Ogden Hall School under the purview, in the school library, of a bust known as Rodin’s Debutante. · rodin's debutante by Ward Just ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, A novel that plays out against a backdrop of Chicago and its environs, a setting that .
Rodin's Debutante. By: Ogden's decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Just's emotionally potent new novel. Lee's life decisions—to become a sculptor, to sojourn in the mean streets of the South Side, to marry into the haute-intellectual culture of Hyde Park—play. "Rodin's Debutante" By Ward Just Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($, pp.) As a new mayor sweeps into Chicago's City Hall and Detective Jarek Wysocki teams up with Police Superintendent Teresa Colvin to expose and unseat a corrupt alderman in "The Chicago Code," veteran novelist Ward Just returns to Chicago for his latest atmospheric story of intrinsically good people trying to. Ward Just's new novel, "Rodin's Debutante," is about loose ends: crimes that don't get solved, destinies that don't get revealed, myths that don't get debunked, civic tensions with.
Rodin's Debutante: A Novel - Kindle edition by Just, Ward. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Rodin's Debutante: A Novel. Just's signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his four years at Ogden Hall School under the purview, in the school library, of a bust known as Rodin's Debutante. And, especially, as he meets again a childhood friend, the victim of a brutal sexual assault of which she has no memory. By Luke Sherwood No comments. Chicago / sculptor in fiction / Ward Just. “Rodin’s Debutante” comprises the story of Lee Goodell, native of a small town near Chicago; he attends a private prep school, overhears things in his home that would get him into deep trouble, and becomes a sculptor. This bald exposition does nothing to tell how engaging Lee or the other characters are, or how deep and cutting the issues on display.
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