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Synopsis
The author recounts growing up as the son of a school superintendent in a small, dusty East Texas town from the thirties to the sixties, including his confrontations with racial inequalities, the Vietnam War, and the deaths of his parents.
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From the Author
My reason for writing INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
The last two years of my father's life were hard, indeed. On him, on his daughters, and on me, his only son. He had Alzheimers', and he didn't know me. Those long, lonely drives home from the nursing home were cold, sad affairs. When he died, in 1992, it was as if a piece of the sun had broken off and drifted away, or some deep and important geological plate had shifted. I knew that I had to work through my feelings in some other way than thinking of good times, and praying, and sorting through boxes of old photographs. I knew I had to write it all down. The result was this book. And I've been amazed at how many people, all unknown to me, have called and written to tell me that I hadn't written my father's and my story at all, but theirs. It's a common story, about common people, and I'm so glad that it's found a receptive audience. I've learned this: the hardest journey that many of us will take is one where we don't actually go anywhere at all. It's when we have to watch someone that we love slip away from us. I hope that INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT will be helpful.
About the Author
RON ROZELLE is the author of Into That Good Night (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), which was a finalist for the PEN American West Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award. His first novel, Windows of Heaven, set in Galveston during the hurricane of 1900, was released by Texas Review Press in July of 2000. Chosen as Barnes and Nobles' Houston-area Featured Author for November, he lives in Lake Jackson, TX, with his wife Karen and their daughters and teaches creative writing and English.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Strong-willed and charismatic, Lester Rozelle was school superintendent in the small East Texas town of Oakwood from the 1930s to the 1960's. A deep-rooted fixture in the community, he guided his schools through disastrous fires and the strained process of integration in President Lyndon Johnson's home state. When he began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, the author had to watch the painful transformation of his proud father into a dependent and ultimately foreign person. Into That Good Night is a son's gift. Seemingly powerless to do anything but witness the slow loss of his father's past, Ron Rozelle re-creates and reclaims his own past: the dusty streets, tired old houses, and wallpapered rooms of his childhood. Rozelle tells of his early, confused discovery of racial inequality, his induction into the military, his decision to become a teacher himself, and the deaths of his parents. Poignant and impressionistic, Into That Good Night is a heartbreakingly lyrical memoir whose fine cadences and shining images will echo for a long time to come. Seller Inventory # CIN0374177112G
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