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The Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told : A Memoir by Dikkon Eberhart and Richard B. Eberhart (2015, Trade Paperback)

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He was predestined for literary greatness. If only his father hadn't used up all the words. As the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, Dikkon Eberhart grew up surrounded by literary giants. Dinner guests included, among others, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, and T. S. Eliot, all of whom flocked to the Eberhart house to discuss, debate, and dissect the poetry of the day. To the world, they were literary icons. To Dikkon, they were friends who read him bedtime stories, gave him advice, and, on one particularly memorable occasion, helped him with his English homework. Anxious to escape his famous father's shadow, Dikkon struggled for decades to forge an identity of his own, first in writing and then on the stage, before inadvertently stumbling upon the answer he'd been looking for all along--in the most unlikely of places. Brimming with unforgettable stories featuring some of the most colorful characters of the Beat Generation, The Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told is a winsome coming-of-age story about one man's search for identity and what happens when he finally finds it.

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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN-10
1414399847
ISBN-13
9781414399843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208589386

Product Key Features

Book Title
Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told : a Memoir
Author
Richard B. Eberhart, Dikkon Eberhart
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Christian Life / Inspirational, Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Religion
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3555.B463z46 2015
Reviews
A memoir charting an artist's lifelong challenge to accept his calling.Eberhart was raised by a famous poet, Richard Eberhart, and surrounded in his youth by accomplished writers: e.e. cummings, Alan Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, and an impressive cast of others. In this often bemusing recounting of an unconventional upbringing, Eberhart describes a family that quietly, even unselfconsciously, displayed its own brand of eccentricity. His mother once met Hitler--a story he used to impress his childhood friends--and his great grandfather invented floor wax, which Eberhart's father sold for a time. Despite the high jinks, such an artistically sensitive environment could be frustrating for a young adolescent looking for something to rebel against. " 'I am at war with you!' I shouted. 'At war!' What Dad did about my shattering fury was to be Dad. 'Ah, youth,' he glowed the next day and patted me on the back. 'What energy! What purity of emotion! What muscles! Hurrah!' This made it worse." The author struggled to accept his magnetic attraction to pursuing art as his life's work--a calling that was like family inheritance. He pursued theater before finally realizing that writing was the medium that most deeply inspired him. The book is a hybrid of dynamic parts; sometimes, Eberhart will digress to treat readers to a literary analysis of a famous poem (Robert Frost's "The Road Less Travelled" is a memorable instance) or to discuss the psychology behind an artist's work. For example, he furnishes a provocative but breezily anecdotal account of the way family friend T.S. Eliot's work was both elevated and limited by his traditionalism. The extraordinary arc of Eberhart's maturation--and coming to terms with his father's legacy--culminates in a religious conversion. After years of mining Judaism for spiritual succor, the author, along with his second wife, finally found peace of mind in Christianity. He explains with philosophical subtlety the ways in which submitting to one father, God himself, helped him reconcile with another, his poet dad. The path he took was a meandering one, like an epic poem.An often lighthearted but also profound recounting of a life in search of art and faith.
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-002513
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Dewey Edition
23

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