Masters, Hilary — Last stands. Notes fom memory
David R. Godine, 1982 Cloth, with dust jacket. 210 pages. Text in English. Clean, tight and fresh, with light signs of use, with SIGNED dedication. A family history that manages - through imagination as well as recollection and research - to connect and interweave the American past, present, and future. Though Masters is deeply concerned with the relationship of his family's history to his country's, he is even more deeply involved with attempting to search for answers to the mystery of identity, to speculate about what it is that brought him to where he is now. And he never loses sight of the essential truth that we can never know the past, that the most we can hope to do is reinvent it for whatever meaning it offers to the present.
