My Amiable Uncle / Purdue University Press (ePub)
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But his memory is fresh and vivid in the mind of his grandniece Susanah Mayberry, and her recollections of him leap from the pages of her book. She recalls that as a small child, before she was aware of her uncle's fame as a writer, he emerged as the one figure whose outline was clear among the blur of forms that made up her large family.
"No one who met Booth Tarkington ever forgot him," says his great-niece. So, she introduces the reader to this multifaceted individual: the young man-about-town, the prankster, the writer of humorous letters (who drew caricatures in the margins), the bereaved father, the inspiration of the affection of three women (simultaneously), and the lover and collector of art objects and portraits.
The author of this volume draws primarily upon her own personal experiences, family lore, and letters (some never published before) to portray her amiable uncle. She tells of the pleasure it gave him to entertain his young nephews and nieces at his Tudor-style winter home in Indianapolis - where they played a spirited form of charades. She recalls vacations which she, as a college student, spent at his light-filled summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine - where she met his famous neighbors. During all of those times, Uncle Booth was a keen observer of yout who created Penrod and friends from his observations, and the teacher of youth, who transmitted his own love of art to his young relations. While recapturing memories of the unforgettable Tarkington, Mayberry recreates an era of elegant and leisurely living, when on the dining table "in the fingerbowls . . . were nosegays of sweet peas and lemon verbena or geranium leaves."
Susanah Mayberry shares with the reader a treasure of family photographs
including Tarkington at various ages; interiors and exteriors of his homes; her
father and uncles as children (the models of Penrod); the writer's
indomitable sister who championed his early work; and his devoted second wife,
a "gentle dragon," who kept his day-to-day life running smoothly. Indiana residents will feel "at home" with the frequent references to the
state and its people. Indianapolis of the late nineteenth through the
mid-twentieth centuries influenced Tarkington and his work. The city was his
birthplace and his death place. He spent a year at Purdue University where he
met such "brilliancies" as George Ade and John McCutcheon. Other famous and
not-so-famous Hoosiers became a part of Tarkington's life, and they-along with
international literary, theatrical, and political luminaries-reappear in
Susanah Mayberry's recollections of her amiable uncle.
- Autor: Susanah Mayberry
- 2019, 160 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Purdue University Press
- ISBN-10: 1557539529
- ISBN-13: 9781557539526
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2019
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