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What is Unwelcome Light : a Novel about?

An unnamed narrator learns after his father's death that this "father" was in fact not his father. The protagonist grew up on the campus of a boarding school, as the son of the headmaster. Now he returns to the school as a teacher in classics, hoping to solve the mystery of his birth. Things go wrong. Natalie, one of his students, is brilliant and beautiful, and there is gossip (untrue) that they are having an affair. He spends time with a former classmate, Elizabeth, now a teacher of art. Gossip spreads (also untrue) that they too are having an affair. A former teacher, who was fired in the past by the protagonist's mysterious father, shows up with shocking information about the snarled family, a tale of adultery and incest. Elizabeth's deranged husband goes into a mad rage and wreaks havoc with a shotgun, worthy of classical tragedy, and the protagonist is doomed to a life of blindness and madnessThe moral of the fate is out of our hands, and the gods are cruel.

Author

David Lehner

Publisher

Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781564744999

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities