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"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.
And 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.".
"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.
Leithauser's embracingly compassionate outlook invites us into their world - into a past so sharply realized it feels like the present."--BOOK JACKET.
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Poetry, Butterflies, Naturalists, Entomologists, Nature, Entomologistes, Poésie, NaturalistesShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Darlington's fall: a novel in verse
2002, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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0375411488 9780375411489
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