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Rodin's Debutante

By Ward Just
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2.5
“Rodin's Debutante is not up to Just's high standards in such novels as An Unfinished Season and The Weather in Berlin. Rodin lacks focus. Is it about a Rodin bust of Marie, Tommy Ogden's wife or someone else? Does the answer show that you can't believe what everyone else thinks? Tommy Ogden is the scion of a railroad baron and, as such does not work but hunts. He deciders to turn the huge family mansion into a boys' school. The school, at best, is mediocre plagued by high turnover in the staff and administration and boys who do not study. Is the message here that education depends on more than money? Rodin is also a coming of age novel about Lee Goodell. Still another theme is the affects of violence on towns and neighborhoods. Lee encounters life changing violence in his home town New Jasper, Illinois and the areas surrounding Hyde Park in Chicago. A disappointment”

About Ward Just

Ward Just's novels include , , the National Book Award finalist , , winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and , winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.

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