An Unexpected Life

by Joseph Blotner

This thoroughly engaging memoir tells the story of a fascinating life marked by unlooked-for good fortune - a life at once distinctive and representative of a generation. With the detail, immediacy, and character delineation of a novel, Joseph Blotner describes how from ordinary beginnings he underwent the trials of being taken captive in World War II, experienced the pleasures and perils of family life, and became an esteemed scholar and the biographer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807130397
• ISBN13: 9780807130391
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"