Jack London
OCTOBER 2013
BIOGRAPHY
Simultaneous Release Library Journal H Review
Earle Labor
Jack London An American Life
From noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor, a revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works.
Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
Read by Michael Prichard
Category: Biography Running Time: 15 hrs - Unabridged Hardcover: 10/01/2013 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Territory: North America On Sale Date: 10/01/2013 Trade 9781452616759 12 Audio CDs $44.99 Library 9781452646756 12 Audio CDs $95.99 MP3 9781452666754 2 MP3-CDs $29.99 Earle Labor is the acknowledged major authority on the novelist Jack London and the curator of the Jack London Museum and Research Center in Shreveport. He is also Emeritus Professor of American Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana. Earle is editor or coeditor of The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, The Portable Jack London, and The Letters of Jack London, among other works. Michael Prichard is a professional narrator and stage and film actor who has played several thousand characters during his career. An Audie Award winner, he has recorded well over five hundred books and has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards. Michael was also named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine.
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The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globetrotter and a man alive with ideas whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory. MARKETING • National advertising PRAISE FOR JACK LONDON
“More than 20 biographies have been written about London, but this volume promises to be one of the best for those who have read London’s books but know less about his life.” —Library Journal H Review “This engrossing biography paints a sympathetic (though not uncritical) portrait of London’s dynamic ambition and energy.” —Publishers Weekly
“At long last, Jack London gets the authoritative biography he so richly deserves.” —Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite
BIOGRAPHY
Simultaneous Release Library Journal H Review
Earle Labor
Jack London An American Life
From noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor, a revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works.
Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
Read by Michael Prichard
Category: Biography Running Time: 15 hrs - Unabridged Hardcover: 10/01/2013 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Territory: North America On Sale Date: 10/01/2013 Trade 9781452616759 12 Audio CDs $44.99 Library 9781452646756 12 Audio CDs $95.99 MP3 9781452666754 2 MP3-CDs $29.99 Earle Labor is the acknowledged major authority on the novelist Jack London and the curator of the Jack London Museum and Research Center in Shreveport. He is also Emeritus Professor of American Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana. Earle is editor or coeditor of The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, The Portable Jack London, and The Letters of Jack London, among other works. Michael Prichard is a professional narrator and stage and film actor who has played several thousand characters during his career. An Audie Award winner, he has recorded well over five hundred books and has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards. Michael was also named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine.
FOR MORE INFORMATION Toll Free 877.782.6867 Tantor Audio Fax 888.782.7821 2 Business Park Road www.tantor.com Old Saybrook, CT 06475
The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globetrotter and a man alive with ideas whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory. MARKETING • National advertising PRAISE FOR JACK LONDON
“More than 20 biographies have been written about London, but this volume promises to be one of the best for those who have read London’s books but know less about his life.” —Library Journal H Review “This engrossing biography paints a sympathetic (though not uncritical) portrait of London’s dynamic ambition and energy.” —Publishers Weekly
“At long last, Jack London gets the authoritative biography he so richly deserves.” —Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite
