Wolf The Lives of Jack London Unabridged Book Review by Qbba

							           Wolf: The Lives of Jack London (Unabridged)
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876. In his
youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling west coast - by and
by playing the role of hobo, sailor, and oyster pirate. From his vantage point at the
margins of Gilded Age America, he witnessed such iniquity and abuses that he
became a life-long socialist and advocate for reform. His adventures in the American
wilderness and underworld informed his fiction, and his writing came to captivate the
nation as it defined his era. Within his own short lifetime, London became the most
popular, and bestselling, author of his generation.By adulthood he had matured into
the iconic American author of such still-universally loved books as The Call of the
Wild, White Fang, and Sea Wolf, but in spite of his success, he was at war with
himself. The highest-paid writer in America, he was constantly broke. Famous as he
was for conjuring the brutality of nature in story after story and novel after novel, upon
the actual deaths of his favorite animals he would dissolve into helpless tears. Sick,
angry, and disillusioned, after a short, breathless life, he passed away at age forty,
but he left behind him a glorious literary legacy.Award-winning author James L. Haley
explores the forgotten Jack London - a man bristling with ideas, whose passion for
social justice roared until the day he died. In Wolf, Haley returns Jack London to his
proper place in the American pantheon, resurrecting the author of White Fang in his
full fire and glory.
Category: Bios & Memoirs > Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Author: James L. Haley
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Reader: Bronson Pinchot
Audiobook length: 12 hours and 32 min.




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