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The Hair of Harold Roux is a 1974 novel by Thomas Williams. The novel shared the National Book Award for Fiction with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers. Plot and Summary "The Hair of Harold Roux" explores the craft of storytelling and its intersections—and at times collisions—with everyday life and mortality.
La novela dentro de la novela se centra en Allard Benson, un veterano del ejército convertido en estudiante universitario, y su amigo Harold Roux, un seminarista fracasado y capellán adjunto de infantería que se ha quedado prematuramente calvo y adoptó un desafortunado toupée.
1 de feb. de 1974 · This is Thomas^^^^Williams. Thomas Williams (November 15, 1926 – October 23, 1990) was an American novelist. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel, Moon Pinnace (1986), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
19 de jun. de 2011 · “The Hair of Harold Roux” revolves around Benham’s attempts to write a novel, also called “The Hair of Harold Roux,” which is revealed in increasingly detailed fragments. It’s a...
Thomas Williams–THE HAIR OF HAROLD ROUX. Jun 26th, 2011 by mary. Note: This novel was WINNER of the National Book Award in 1975. “ [Author Aaron Benham] has always thought of a novel, before it has taken on its first, tentative structure, as a scene on a dark plain, the characters standing around a small fire which warmly etches the edges ...
Thomas Williams’ novel The Hair of Harold Roux occupies a peculiar limbo of the lost: Published in 1974, it shared the 1975 National Book Award for fiction with Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers ...
The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams - The 10142nd greatest book of all time. The novel is a layered narrative that alternates between the protagonist, a writer, working on his novel in 1960s New Hampshire and the story within his novel set in 1930s New England.
