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100 1 $aLeithauser, Brad.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81126641
245 10 $aDarlington's fall :$ba novel in verse /$cby Brad Leithauser ; with drawings by Mark Leithauser.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c2002.
300 $a311 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The hero of this one-of-a-kind novel is Russel Darlington, a born naturalist and an unlikely romantic hero. We meet him in the year 1895 - a seven-year-old boy first glimpsed chasing a frog through an Indiana swamp.
520 8 $aAnd we follow this idealistic, appealing man for nearly forty years: into college and over the Rockies in pursuit of a new species of butterfly; through a clumsy courtship and into a struggling marriage; across the Pacific, where on a tiny, rainy island he suffers a nightmarish accident; through the deaths of friends and family and into a seemingly hopeless passion for an unapproachable young woman.".
520 8 $a"Darlington's Fall is ultimately a love story. It is written in verse that - vivid, accessible, and lush - imparts an intensity to the story and its luminous gallery of characters: Russel's rich, taciturn, upright, guilt-driven father; Miss Kraus, his formidable housekeeper; Ernst Schrock, his maddening, gluttonous mentor; and Pauline Beaudette, the beautiful, ill-starred girl who becomes his wife.
520 8 $aLeithauser's embracingly compassionate outlook invites us into their world - into a past so sharply realized it feels like the present."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEntomologists$vPoetry.
650 0 $aNaturalists$vPoetry.
650 0 $aButterflies$vPoetry.
650 0 $aNature$vPoetry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108353
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