Lamar Herrin
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FATHER FIGURE
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​Most novelists have a story or two they’d like to expand into a novel, one day planning to get around to it.  Many, of course, don’t get around to it, the urge dies or they do and the novel remains a story.  
Father Figure had as its genesis a story I published in Epoch magazine in 1998, “Casualties.”  That was a story about a man who returned from World War II, minus his left leg and his generous, trusting nature.  Before the war, he had been a hero to his town and returned to it to find that during the time he’d been abroad in the service his wife had given birth to a son.  The son, of course, never knew his pre-war father (about whom adoring stories were told), only the powerfully driven and deeply embittered one-legged man who’d survived the Battle of the Bulge.  The story, I came to understand, belonged ultimately to the son and to the people (family members and townspeople alike) around him, and almost twenty years later Father Figure was born. 

"What a remarkable, evocative book. Lamar Herrin is a consummate story-teller, and Father Figure is a richly imagined American story - of patrimony and baseball and war and the inheritance of history's wounds - told with great physical immediacy and a seemingly effortless emotional intensity." 

​- Philip Gourevitch, author of The Ballad of Abu Ghraib


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