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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the unheralded masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction, \u003ci\u003eLight While There Is Light\u003c/i\u003e is acclaimed poet Keith Waldrop's autobiographical novel about the myriad ghosts left behind by his family\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003eBorn to a deeply religious mother, the narrator and his siblings are led across the US as she searches for the \u0026#34;right\u0026#34; religious sect\u0026#8212;a trip that ends with her speaking in tongues, and finally her total isolation. But no synopsis can do justice to the beauty of Keith Waldrop's measured, wise, and unembroidered prose, illuminating the fear, madness, and destruction within hearth and home\u0026#8212;though never repudiating his love for same. In a tradition that stretches back through Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, Keith Waldrop and \u003c/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLight While There Is Light\u003c/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are American treasures.\u003c/span\u003e |
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