![]() ![]() ![]() But his father was rarely present, finding his wife as difficult as everyone else did. Eiseley presents himself as an almost friendless child, seeking reassurance and normality from his father's rolling baritone, the antithesis of his mother's strident shrieking. Christianson - of an isolated household, with Eiseley an unnurtured child left in the tortured company of his deaf, nearly mad mother. There are only Eiseley's striking accounts - retold by Mr. Christianson makes clear the lasting effects of that childhood, the time itself is glazed over, selectively erased and almost certainly reshaped by Eiseley's own hand. All we know of it is filtered through Eiseley's eyes and writings. ![]() Christianson faces is the lack of evidence about the most critical part of Eiseley's life, his strange childhood. Christianson has tackled one of the most gifted essayists of all time, Loren Eiseley. It is intrinsically difficult to write about a writer, and Gale E. FOX AT THE WOOD'S EDGEA Biography of Loren Eiseley. ![]()
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