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Originally published in 1947 and presenting the famed poet-novelist against the background of contemporary thought and society, Harvey Curtis Webster shows that Hardy's later works give consistent evidence of hope; that pervasive pessimism was by no means the keynote of Hardy's thought. On a Darkling Plain traces the evolution of Hardy's thought, from faith, through disillusionment, to a cautious belief in the ultimate progress of man.

Inspired by the real-life struggle of Curtis and Trang Webster to bond as father and daughter, "Moonguyen" tells the story of self-absorbed basketball coach Randy Hartman and his newly-adopted ten year-old Vietnamese daughter, Cam, as they collide over questions of culture, language and, ultimately, what it truly means to be "family." The voices of Randy and Cam alternate as each recalls the first several months of a very bumpy road to familial love. "Moonguyen" captures the frustrations, the humor and the drama of older-child adoption, with a heavy overlay of the unique challenges posed by...