The Duke of Deception: Memoir of the Author's Father

WOLFF, Geoffrey

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son. In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.

Duke of Deception

Arts & Literature

Penguin??Books

Providence

Providence is fast-paced, taut, and absolutely accurate in its portrayal of small-city life from the top to the very lowest depths. It is also a moving, penetrating novel--as hilarious as it is tragic--about love and corruption, about revenge and dignity and death. Wolff is the author of The Duke of Deception.

Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Among his honors and recognition are the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) and fellowships of the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy in Berlin (2007),[1] and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Bad debts

Literature & Fiction

London, Hamilton [

In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.

The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum (Vintage Departures)

Historical

Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blackberry Mountain in upstate New York full of hope for the future; they would live a wholesome life rooted in the natural world, free from social constraints and the ugly urban climate of the early seventies. But all this changes when Maisie, age fifteen, stands poised at the top of a waterfall on the 4th of July and looks down over her family and friends before plunging headfirst into the shallow pool, doing herself injuries that will mark them all forever. "The sins of parents are visited on their children in this superb new novel. . . a stinging social and cultural portrait of a time, a place and a generation whose highflown ideals masked a weak moral fiber.. . . While he is writing about the death of dreams, he provides a satisfying ending that is a healthy antidote to much current fiction in which cynicism triumphs over faith and moral turpitude over justice."

The Age of Consent

Literary

Picador

Ted and Maisie's parents moved to the community of Blackberry Mountain in upstate New York full of hope for the future; they would live a wholesome life rooted in the natural world, free from social constraints and the ugly urban climate of the early seventies. But all this changes when Maisie, age fifteen, stands poised at the top of a waterfall on the 4th of July and looks down over her family and friends before plunging headfirst into the shallow pool, doing herself injuries that will mark them all forever."The sins of parents are visited on their children in this superb new novel. . . a stinging social and cultural portrait of a time, a place and a generation whose highflown ideals masked a weak moral fiber.. . . While he is writing about the death of dreams, he provides a satisfying ending that is a healthy antidote to much current fiction in which cynicism triumphs over faith and moral turpitude over justice."

Contemporary

Alfred.A. Knopf

The Duke Of Deception: Memories of my father

Random House]

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

First edition. Much on the Black Sun Press. xvi, 368 pages. dust jacket.. 8vo..

History

Random House, Inc.

The Sightseer - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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The Duke of Deception: Memoir of the Author's Father

Duke of Deception

Providence

Bad debts

The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum (Vintage Departures)

The Age of Consent

The Age of Consent

The Duke Of Deception: Memories of my father

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

The Sightseer - 1st Edition/1st Printing