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The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time.Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen’s agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal.

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A masterpiece of formal beauty … deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time. * The New Statesmen *
Great novel of the broken South. * The New Statesmen *
A psychological horror story … concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.
The story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.
It is one of the most remarkable novels of our time … The Fathers is in fact the novel Gone with the Wind ought to have been.

The Fathers

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    A Paperback / softback by Allen Tate, Arthur Mizener

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      Publisher Ohio University Press
      Published 5 March 1970
      ISBN-13 9780804001083
      978-0804001083
      ISBN-10 0804001081
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time.Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen’s agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal.

      Trade Review
      A masterpiece of formal beauty … deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time. * The New Statesmen *
      Great novel of the broken South. * The New Statesmen *
      A psychological horror story … concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.
      The story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.
      It is one of the most remarkable novels of our time … The Fathers is in fact the novel Gone with the Wind ought to have been.

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