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The Ice Harp

The Ice Harp

Lock, Norman

Paperback

Series: American Novels

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 1954276176
ISBN13: 9781954276178
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: Jul 4 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.79 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier's unjust arrest

In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America's foremost essayist and orator. To the dismay of his wife, he frequently entertains the specters of his fellow transcendentalists, including Whitman, Thoreau, John Muir, and Margaret Fuller, and frets about the future of humankind and the natural world. Does the present displace the past? Do ideas always precede actions? What responsibility does each of us bear for the downtrodden, the preservation of liberty, and the Earth itself? These metaphysical concerns become concrete when Emerson meets a Black soldier accused of killing a white man who abused him. The soldier's presence demands a response from Emerson, an action outside the parlors of philosophy and beyond the realm where language and logic hold sway.

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