Wolf, James L. Haley
Wolf, James L. Haley
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Wolf
The Lives of Jack London

Author: James L. Haley

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 12 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2010


Synopsis

Jack London was born a workingclass, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876, and in his youth was a boundlessly energetic adventurer. 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. After a short, breathless life, he passed away at age forty, but he left behind him a glorious literary legacy. Awardwinning author James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack Londona 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.

About James L. Haley

James L. Haley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in political science. His works of history include Apaches, The Buffalo War, and Sam Houston: A Life, which won nine historical and literary awards. Haley is also the author of four novels. He lives in Austin, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

Jack London lived a great life and this is a very readable no-nonsense biography which along with packing in all the frantic eyepopping thrills and spills of Jack’s hectic – I mean HECTIC – life, also throws up some fascinating issues. Jack was born poor to a bizarre slightly unhinged termagant of a......more

The first American writer as Cover Boy, and a precursor to Dos Passos, Steinbeck and, of course, Hemingway, London (born into poverty) had a short life that roars along like a movie-radio serial: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Capt Marvel, Ace Drummond or Jack Armstrong the All-American Boy ! Each life......more