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Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876, and in his youth was a boundlessly energetic adventurer. His adventures in the American wilderness and underworld informed his fiction, and his writing came to captivate the nation as it defined his era. Within his own short lifetime, London became the most popular and best-selling author of his generation. After a short, breathless life, he passed away at age forty, but he left behind him a glorious literary legacy. Award-winning author James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack London—a man bristling with ideas, whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. In Wolf, Haley returns Jack London to his proper place in the American pantheon, resurrecting the author of White Fang in his full fire and glory.
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"Narrator Bronson Pinchot's direct, animated performance proves to be a perfect complement to the rich and absorbing text. With Pinchot's well-paced and fluid delivery, listeners are easily made witness to the most intimate and exciting details of London's life. Listeners looking for an entertaining biography will find it here."
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"[A] valuable Londonbiography. It surpasses Irving Stone's 1938 Sailor on Horseback, giving us a well-delineated picture of a singular, complicated figure…These days we have little sense of the literary glory that was Jack London. Thanks to James Haley's zeal, the author of [the fiercely imaginative Before Adam], not just the man of The Call of the Wild, is before us again."
Wall Street Journal
"Haley's work is the sympathetically told story of a man unlucky in his birth to foolish parents, unlucky enough in his health to die at forty, and unlucky with women until his second wife, Charmian. Recommended."
Library Journal