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Benham is writing a novel entitled The Hair of Harold Roux, in which the “thinly disguised” hero is twenty-one year-old Allard Benson, who is a college student on the G. I. Bill just after the close of World War II. Allard Benson does not believe in violence, but he would “kill the world for girls like Mary Tolliver,” an especially ...
work on a novel, The Hair of Harold Roux , a thinly disguised autobiographical account of his college days. In Aaron's novel, his alter ego, Allard Benson, courts a young woman, despite the efforts of his rival, the earnest and balding Harold Roux-a GI recently returned from World War II with an unfortunate hairpiece.
Trama y resumen. "The Hair of Harold Roux" explora el oficio de contar historias y sus intersecciones, y en ocasiones colisiones, con la vida cotidiana y la mortalidad. La columna vertebral narrativa de la novela une un largo fin de semana en la vida de Aaron Benham, un profesor de literatura clínicamente deprimido en una universidad de New ...
7 de jun. de 2011 · In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux.A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel hailed as a masterpiece, it deserves a new generation of readers.
THE HAIR OF HAROLD ROUX by Thomas Williams was first published in 1974, and won the National Book Award for fiction in 1975. It has been republished this year by Bloomsbury USA with an introduction by Andre Dubos III and an afterword by novelist Ann Joslin Williams, the author's daughter.
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