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Overview

From the author of the critically acclaimed Pinkerton’s Sister comes volume two of this extraordinary sequence of novels.

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton — the faithless young naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly — was glimpsed fleetingly in Peter Rushforth's previous novel, Pinkerton's Sister. Now Ben steps out of the shadows and into the center of the stage, a young man haunted by the desolation of his boyhood years, unable to show or respond to love.

Once again, in his mastery of language, his humor, his extraordinary imagination, and his superb sense of time and place, Peter Rushforth has given the world another masterpiece, ranking alongside, or surpassing, his earlier triumphs.

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A follow-up to Rushforth's acclaimed Pinkerton's Sister, this book is being published posthumously after the author's sudden death in 2005 and was to have been Volume 2 of a quintet. Here the focus is on U.S. naval lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, who, in the opera Madame Butterfly, spurned the Japanese woman who loved him, resulting in her suicide. Rushforth details Pinkerton's youth in the 1880s and 1890s, including the cruel father who openly ridiculed his only son for not being manly enough, going so far as to complain about Ben's defects to one of his insensitive teachers. Fortunately, Ben finds solace in his relationship with older sister Alice and with some fellow students. Rushforth has created an unusual story showing how a person can become emotionally stunted, unable to understand and feel love, but to his credit the tone is not overly despondent. In fact, Rushforth can be very funny, brilliantly parodying Victorian society by highlighting the behavior of an assortment of hypocritical characters. While somewhat daunting in length, the book is ultimately worth the effort for its ability to provide a daring glimpse into the psyche of a young person struggling to maintain personal dignity when identity and self-esteem are so precariously fragile. Recommended for larger public libraries and academic fiction collections.-M. Neville, Trenton P.L. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596922464
  • Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
  • Publication date: 10/1/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 750
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Peter Rushforth’s brilliant first novel, Kindergarten, was published in 1979 and won the Hawthornden Prize, awarded to the best work of imaginative literature. After an absence of twenty-five years he returned to the literary scene in 2004 with the epic novel Pinkerton’s Sister, which charmed critics at the Washington Post, New Yorker, and San Francisco Chronicle, and was named a BookSense selection in March 2005. In the fall of 2005 Rushforth finished a sequel to Pinkerton’s Sister, an elegant novel entitled A Dead Language.

Sadly, after making his final revisions to his work, Peter Rushforth passed away while walking on the Yorkshire Moors. A Dead Language was published posthumously in the U.K. by Simon & Schuster.

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