Lost Son - now in paperback
LOST SON is the haunting story of poet Rainer
Maria Rilke, one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of the modern age.
From Rilke’s troubled beginnings—reared as a girl until age six, then sent to military school for five miserable years—through his later experiences in the midst of World War I, LOST SON dramatizes the troubles and triumphs this immensely vulnerable personality encountered as he made his way in the modern world.
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“I'm not sure it’s right to see Lost Son simply as a fictional biography of Rilke. It is also Cunningham’s spiritual autobiography, his own fierce identification with the poet’s commitment to art...mesmerizing.”
—The Oregonian
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LOST SON brings Rilke’s significant relationships powerfully alive, including his close friendships with the sculptor Rodin and the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. And at the heart of the novel is Rilke’s legendary attachment to his one-time lover and lifelong muse, the incomparable Lou Andreas-Salomé—confidante of Nietzsche, and later, Freud.
More than a fictionalized biography, LOST SON is framed by a bewitched young figure traveling in Rilke’s footsteps generations after the poet’s death. The result is a dark and intimate fantasia on Rilke’s art, an exploration of the forever imperfect loyalties one faces in life, and a lyrical meditation upon the distances that can separate life and art.
- Rainer who? More on Rainer Maria Rilke & LOST SON-
- Read an excerpt from LOST SON - or listen to one-
The Green Age of Asher Witherow - now in paperback
A rich, gothic tale of a young soul coming of age during the explosive boom and but years of an immigrant coal mining town in nineteenth-century California. In this powerful debut, M. Allen Cunningham takes us into a time and place at once gritty and magical, when the future seems filled with promise but where the day’s labor is bone breaking, numbing and always dangerous.
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“Nowhere is the theme of personal redemption and the hard-won understandings that precede it more powerfully drawn than in M. Allen Cunningham’s riveting debut novel, The Green Age of Asher Witherow…a brilliant story from one of America’s most promising voices.”
—ForeWord Magazine
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- Read an excerpt from The Green Age of Asher Witherow -
- Sift through the "disjecta membra" that inspired The Green Age of Asher Witherow -
- Read about the exciting release of The Green Age in this Publishers Weekly article from 2004 -