Gloucesterbook - Bayliss, Jonathan
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Gloucesterbook is groundbreaking American fiction of the 20th century - one of four novels that make up the unconventional and stimulating literary masterpiece GLOUCESTERMAN. In Gloucesterbook, the central character Caleb Karcist - absorbed in his consulting work, creative ideas, and love life - becomes intrigued by the politics, arts, and eccentric society of a fishing port (modeled on Gloucester, Massachusetts) called "Dogtown" on the Atlantic Coast's "Cape Gloucester" during the 1960s. The novel describes a unique geography that draws to it people with unusual experiences and interests,…mehr

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Gloucesterbook is groundbreaking American fiction of the 20th century - one of four novels that make up the unconventional and stimulating literary masterpiece GLOUCESTERMAN. In Gloucesterbook, the central character Caleb Karcist - absorbed in his consulting work, creative ideas, and love life - becomes intrigued by the politics, arts, and eccentric society of a fishing port (modeled on Gloucester, Massachusetts) called "Dogtown" on the Atlantic Coast's "Cape Gloucester" during the 1960s. The novel describes a unique geography that draws to it people with unusual experiences and interests, including businessman Rafe Opsimath, avant-garde poet Ipsissimus Charlemagne, and Fathers Lucey and Duncannon of a tiny High Church religious order. Through the web of Caleb's work life and friendships, this fiction - with its extraordinarily detailed observations, exuberant language, and quiet humor - weaves together ideas and feelings about business, history, politics, systems, ritual, and sex. This is a novel about mid-20th-century America as experienced in an exceptionally interesting Atlantic seaport where work, love, and creative mind come together.
Autorenporträt
Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, and grew up in Cambridge and Vermont during the Great Depression. He studied at Harvard, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and finished his A.B. at the University of California at Berkeley. Bayliss earned a livelihood in positions involving systems and executive management, beginning in 1950 at a Berkeley bookstore. In the 1960s, as controller of Gorton's of Gloucester, he was a pioneer in developing integrated computer applications. Bayliss left Gorton's in 1972, and with the financial assistance of a literary grant he devoted the following five years to full-time writing. Later he worked for the City of Gloucester as an executive aide to the mayor and as city treasurer, resuming full-time writing in 1985. Bayliss was putting the finishing touches on his final novel when he died in Gloucester at the age of 82.