The Art Student's War (79 page)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five previous novels, five volumes of poetry, a novel in verse, two collections of light verse, and a book of essays. Among the many awards and honors he has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He served for a year as
Time
magazine’s theater critic. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, divide their time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, Leithauser was inducted into the Order of the Falcon by the president of Iceland for his writings about Nordic literature.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright © 2009 by Brad Leithauser
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto.
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A portion of this book originally appeared in slightly different form in
The Hopkins Review
.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.: Excerpt from “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye,” words and music by Cole Porter, copyright © 1944 by Chappell & Co., Inc. Copyright renewed and assigned to John F. Wharton, trustee of the Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts. Publication and allied rights assigned to Chappell & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
The Literary Estate of May Swenson: Excerpt from “Colors Without Objects” from
Half Sun Half Sleep
by May Swenson (New York: Scribner, 1967). Reprinted by permission of Carole Berglie, executor of The Literary Estate of May Swenson.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Leithauser, Brad.
The art student’s war / by Brad Leithauser.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-30727318-5
1. Detroit (Mich.)—History—20th century—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3562.E4623A89 2009
813′54—dc22 2009019468
v3.0
Table of Contents
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Part Three - All the Lost Houses
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX