Male Call: Becoming Jack London

by Jonathan Auerbach

When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a sympathetic, romantic man of letters whose charismatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318202
• ISBN13: 9780822318200
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"