Description
Author: O’Hara John
Format: Hardback
Imprint: Antiquarian Books
ISBN: A1994
Novelists usually use technique of a narrator who got the story from somebody else when the veracity of the story is in doubt. In Ourselves to Know, John OHara turns turns that conceit inside out.
As a child growing up in Lyons, Pa., Gerald Higgins knows Robert Millhouser by sight. He ferrets out the story that Millhouser shot and killed his wife in 1908. Gerald doesnt understand why his grandfather and parents respect Millhouser despite the murder.
When Gerald is grown, Millhouser him to write the story, with the stipulation that Gerald not publish it for 20 years.
Within this complicated framework, OHara presents a riveting story of complex people in a deceptively innocent-appearing era.
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