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What is Rodin's Debutante about?
Tommy Ogden, a Gatsbyesque character living in a mansion outside robber-baron-era Chicago, declines to give his wife the money to commission a bust of herself from the French master Rodin and announces instead his intention to endow a boys' school. Ogden's decision reverberates years later in the life of Lee Goodell, whose coming of age is at the heart of Ward Just's emotionally potent new novel. Lee's life decisions—to become a sculptor, to sojourn in the mean streets of the South Side, to marry into the haute-intellectual culture of Hyde Park—play out against the crude glamour of midcentury Chicago. Just's signature skill of conveying emotional heft with few words is put into play as Lee confronts the meaning of his four years at Ogden Hall School under the purview, in the school library, of a bust known as Rodin's Debutante. And, especially, as he meets again a childhood friend, the victim of a brutal sexual assault of which she has no memory. It was a crime...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Just, Ward
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780547504209
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Psychology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.14 / 5 (242 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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