Going Where I Have to Go: Essays from Within

by Harold P. Simonson

A recently retired Professor of English at the University of Washington, author Harold P. Simonson crafts exquisite, lyrical essays on the relationships between and among individuals, as well as between man and a transcendent and sometimes mysterious reality. Echoing throughout the book is the presence of the author's father, as well as Simonson's own experiences with fatherhood. Each essay deals with universal boyhood and early awakening, the self-questioning of the "middle years", and the return to one's roots as a seasoned adult. Examining memory and images, family past and present, these essays bespeak the need to go where one has to go in life, knowing all the while that the time allotted each man is but a speck in geologic time. An American Book Award nominee.

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Published January 1, 1996