The Wasteland by Harper H Jameson
The extraordinary career and devastating life of T.S. Eliot.
Eliot is a hollow man trapped in a dreary world. Working at the bank, a slave to the clock, the same routine, day after day. While London's elite enjoy a Great Gatsby lifestyle and poets like Robert Frost are rock stars, attracting thousands of fans to each reading, T.S. Eliot walks past life, peering at it through cracks or around corners. A world in color only in his stark imagination.
Then one day he comes across Jack, an out and proud gay man being badly beaten, and something compels him to intervene. Life will never be the same.
Jack introduces Eliot to the gay underground of early 20th Century London and to feelings Eliot had crammed down and locked away. And with freedom comes poetry. Extraordinary poetry that takes London by storm. But as Eliot's fame increases, pressure for conformity does as well. Religious intolerance, fascism's increasingly popular message of traditional values and the allure of untold success present Eliot with a decision that could have devastating consequences.
THE WASTELAND is the untold story of T.S. Eliot, his secret struggle with being gay, the people left in the wake of his meteoric career trajectory and the madness that helped produce his greatest work.
Wow This is an amazing book.wholly original. Briskly paced, page-turning action. - Screencraft
Fans of T.S. Eliot and Moonlight will love this highly recommended book. (Screencraft)
" The Wasteland captures the beauty of Eliot's language, the singular eccentricity of his contemporaries (Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, etc.), and the richness of his personal story. A story that feels as relevant today as ever." -- Alyssia Gonzalez, Midwest Book Review
" The Wasteland offers an inventive, albeit highly speculative, unmasking of the deeply reserved, guarded poet." Charles Green, writer for Gay & Lesbian Review
When Harper graduated from Brown University with a history degree, there was no inkling that a career as a writer would follow. After running a successful business for years, then launching the Social Impact Conference to support business owners, artists and activists dedicated to positive social change, Harper realized that story-telling was fundamental to changing the world and that history housed the greatest stories of them all.
Harper especially enjoys finding important but forgotten, or misunderstood, figures from history and bringing them back to life so that the reader can learn about them firsthand. Some recent favorite books include Strange Angel (George Pendle), Billion Dollar Whale (Bradley Hope, et. al), and Revolution (Russell Brand). Why don't you join Harper on a roller coaster ride through history that you never knew existed?| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781646300426 |
| ISBN 10 | 1646300424 |
| Title | The Wasteland |
| Author | Harper H Jameson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Level 4 Press Inc |
| Year published | 2021-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (LGBTQ+ Fiction) 2021 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |