At eighteen Robert Tagliaferro, an orphan of ambiguous racial and ethnic identity, disappears from his hometown of Utica, New York. At sixty he returns, forgotten by nearly everyone and searching the bin of memory for something to salvage. Having lived for decades inside a bookstore,...
Raised in Utica, New York, Frank Lentricchia is Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University. He is the author of a number of scholarly works, including After the New Criticism, Criticism and Social Change, and Modernist Quartet, and...