At one point in this novel, Doctor McGuire declares, "He's being saved for Congress" after the protagonist survives being run over by a wagon carrying the Hilliards' groceries. Multiple characters in this novel frequent a brothel in Eagle Crescent, from which one character is carried nightly by his son Steven. The death of the protagonist's brother Grover impels his family to return from St. Louis, after which he attends a school run by Margaret Leonard. As a child he is forced to hawk the Saturday Evening Post with his brother Luke, and later in life his heart is broken by Laura James after a summer she spends at his
At one point in this novel, Doctor McGuire declares, "He's being saved for Congress" after the protagonist survives being run over by a wagon carrying the Hilliards' groceries. Multiple characters in this novel frequent a brothel in Eagle Crescent, from which one character is carried nightly by his son Steven. The death of the protagonist's brother Grover impels his family to return from St. Louis, after which he attends a school run by Margaret Leonard. As a child he is forced to hawk the Saturday Evening Post with his brother Luke, and later in life his heart is broken by Laura James after a summer she spends at his mother's boarding house in Altamont, North Carolina. The protagonist sees a vision of his dead brother Ben before going off to Harvard at the conclusion of, for 10 points, what novel about Eugene Gant by Thomas Wolfe?
At one point in this novel, Doctor McGuire declares, "He's being saved for Congress" after the protagonist survives being run over by a wagon carrying the Hilliards' groceries.
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