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| author |
Clifford W. Evan
| | title |
The Last Weinrip
| | abstract |
Stories of success and failure figure prominently in contemporary American fiction and drama. The life story of the author's father, Perry Weinstein, presents the uniquely American account of a man who both soars to the greatest heights of success and descends into the darkest depths of poverty, addiction, and the shame these afflictions evoke in our cultural consciousness. Through the imaginative lens of fiction and the artistic license it affords, the dissertation presents a tragicomic rendering of the author's father through the narrative recollections of a fictional character, "Larry Weinrip." Although The Last Weinrip incorporates a fictionalized voice and a number of imagined scenes, Larry Weinrip's story is modeled closely on the life and consciousness of Perry Weinstein. More than a decade-and-a-half after his death, this fictional account provides an artistic vehicle and a voice to imagine what was, and what might have turned out differently for a man whose life the author still struggles to understand.
| | school |
The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University
| | degree |
D.Litt. (2019)
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| advisors |
Robert Ready
Virginia Phelan
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| full text | CWEvan.pdf |
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