Ludwig, Jack.

Confusions.

Greenwich (Connecticut), New York Graphic Society Publishers Ltd., 1963. 15 cm x 21,5 cm. 276 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some staining to boards, minor foxing, otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

“Confusions” is a bitingly funny, unconventional novel about mid-century America and its tangled ways. Its narrator, Joseph Gillis, is a Roxbury Jewish boy and Harvard Ph.D.– “I always figured being one cancelled out being the other.” He travels with his with, Radcliffe lute-player, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a small California college town where they seek life and battle the gospel of ‘Second Things First’ among hilariously describe assortment of campus colleagues, friends and enemies. (Rear dustjacket flap)

Jack Barry Ludwig (born August 30, 1922) is a Canadian-born American-resident novelist, short story writer and sportswriter.
Born and raised in the Jewish Canadian community of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ludwig was educated at the University of Manitoba, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1944, and the University of California, Los Angeles, earning his Ph.D. in 1953. He has remained a resident of the United States for most of his adult life, holding teaching positions at institutions such as the University of Minnesota and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was a friend and acolyte of Saul Bellow in his early career, although this relationship was damaged by Ludwig’s extramarital affair with Bellow’s then-wife Sondra; Ludwig was the basis of the character Valentine Gersbach in Bellow’s novel Herzog.
Ludwig’s novels include Confusions (1963), Above Ground (1968) and A Woman of Her Age (1973). Above Ground, a thinly veiled response to his portrayal in Herzog, was later reprinted as part of McClelland & Stewart’s New Canadian Library series. He also published numerous short stories in literary magazines, although he never published a collection of his short stories in book form.
He is most highly regarded for his journalism, however, concentrating almost exclusively on sportswriting following the publication of Hockey Night in Moscow in 1972.
He was the subject of a chapter in Graeme Gibson’s 1973 non-fiction work Eleven Canadian Novelists. (Wikipedia)

• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 28824AB

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