The Broadway musical Lost in the Stars  by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill is based on this work.
The Broadway musical Lost in the Stars  by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill is based on this work. The wealthy landowner James Jarvis was estranged from his son Arthur, but after Arthur's murder he gets to know him through his radical essays. The protagonist's sister Gertrude becomes a prostitute and his brother John a carpenter, but the novel focuses on his search for his son Absalom, who is the one who murdered Arthur. It was a critical success, which the author followed up with the less successful Too Late the Fallerope. Focusing on the Anglican priest Stephen Kumalo's search in Johannesburg, For 10 points, name this first novel by South African author Alan Paton.
The Broadway musical Lost in the Stars  by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill is based on this work.
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