The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff

The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff

Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.
In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.

Geoffrey Wolff is a well-known novelist, essayist, biographer, and critic in contemporary American literature. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Director of the Graduate Fiction Program from 1995 to 2006. He was educated at Cambridge and Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude. He formerly worked as a book editor at the Washington Post and Newsweek and served on the faculties of Istanbul University and Princeton University. He is the author of six books, including The Age of Consent (Knopf, 1995), which is set in a small utopian society in upstate New York, and The Last Club (Knopf, 1990), which is about Princeton's covert social networks. Black Sun (Random House, 1976), a literary biography of the short-lived avant-garde poet Harry Crosby; The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara (Knopf, 2003), a literary biography of the American fiction writer; The Duke of Deception (Random House, 1979), a memoir that was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize; and The Edge of Maine (National Geographic, 2005), a rich portrayal of the

In 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Prize in Literature, and he has also earned grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a Member of the American Academy in Berlin in 2007. He and his family reside in Bath, Maine.

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ISBN 13	9780679727521
ISBN 10	0679727523
Title	The Duke of Deception
Author	Geoffrey Wolff
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1990-02-19
Number of pages	304
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