Skeleton Key to the Suicide of My Father, Ross Lockridge, Jr..Author of RAINTREE COUNTY

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Skeleton Key to the Suicide of My Father, Ross Lockridge, Jr..Author of RAINTREE COUNTY

WHY did my brilliant father, Ross Lockridge, Jr., execute himself at 33, March 6, 1948, while his first novel, RAINTREE COUNTY, was the Number-One Bestseller in America? Critics were hailing it as the sole recent contender for the ultimate American title, "The Great American Novel." Even as my father was murdering himself, he was experiencing critical and financial success beyond the greatest of great expectations. He died with full knowledge that his life, viewed from the street, had exceeded all but the most extravagant of human dreams.

My book holds the SKELETON KEY that unlocks the Riddle of Raintree County. I offer this painful story less from choice than from an obligation to history and to truth, in order that the truth will not die with me.

Squeamishness and mendacity, blood brothers, go hand in hand. Miss Manners plays no part this tragedy. Truth is not subject to etiquette or taste, and it is precisely because the truth about my father's brief, terrible life and his forlorn death is unspeakable that the truth demands to be told.

Country	USA
Author	Ernest Lockridge
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Global Enterprises
Manufacturer	Global Enterprises
NumberOfPages	228
PublicationDate	2014-04-25
Publisher	Global Enterprises
ReleaseDate	2014-04-25
Studio	Global Enterprises

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