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The king of America : a novel by Gillison, Samantha is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The king of America : a novel about?
"The King of America traces the short, brilliant life of Stephen Hesse, firstborn son of one of America's wealthiest, most powerful men - yet Stephen's distinguished paternal lineage and the great privilege it has conferred on him are at odds with the working-class background of his mother. Ultimately, a scandalous divorce and the replacement of the somber, dark-eyed mother and child with a new family more becoming to Stephen's father's political ambition leave the young man an outsider. The sole focus of his abandoned mother, Stephen Hesse grows up lonesome and restless." "At Harvard, recovering from a failed love affair, Stephen falls under the sway of a charismatic anthropology professor and, at last, feels a sense of direction and identity. As a scholar, writer, and art collector for his father's museum, Stephen accompanies his mentor to the impossibly strange and distant world of Netherlands New Guinea, where a Neolithic culture, still practicing its ancient rites of head-hunting, thrives in its last moments before modernity arrives. There Stephen discovers the Asmat bisj poles - terrifying, glorious, towering pieces of carved woodwork honoring tribal ancestors - which he hope
Who reads The king of America : a novel?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gillison, Samantha
- Publisher
- New York : Random House
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375508196
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.19 / 5 (48 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14