Rodin's Debutante by Ward Just
Tommy Ogden, a wealthy man outside turn‑of‑the‑century Chicago, declines to commission a Rodin bust and instead endows a boys’ school. Years later Lee Goodell’s coming of age—his decision to become a sculptor, to live on the South Side, and to enter Hyde Park’s intellectual world—unfolds against midcentury Chicago. The school’s library houses a plaster known as Rodin’s Debutante, a quiet presence as Lee confronts his past and reconnects with a childhood friend who has endured a violent trauma.
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- 2011
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