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Jack London: A Life (Paperback)
Written with verve in a direct and emphatic style, this most recent biography of the legendary California-born adventurer and author of The Call of the Wild may prompt a reassessment of London, as its author hopes. Kershaw describes London’s emotionally and materially disenfranchised early years as an oyster pirate on the San Francisco waterfront and Klondike adventurer to account for his conflicting lifelong adherence to both Darwinism and socialism. Kershaw also discusses the writer’s nourishing relationship with Charmian Kittredge, London’s obsessive long-distance travel, his costly attempts to create an environmentally friendly model at his Beauty Ranch, and the drinking and ill health that led up to his death at 40. Preferring living to writing, London nonetheless drove himself to write 1000 words a day. Yet this life reveals that all the money and celebrity that eventually came his way did nothing but starve London’s soul, leaving him a broken man with only a reputation as a writer of dog stories. Kershaw’s reassessment sees beyond the legend and examines neglected London works.
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