Genoa
Subtitle: a telling of wonders
By: Paul Metcalf ; with an introduction by Rick  Moody
Edition: 50th anniversary edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781566893923
Subjects: Family; Fiction
Description: "First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothers--one, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song. Paul Metcalf (1917-99) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume Collected Works were published by Coffee House Press in 1996"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217).