Van Gogh's Right Ear: Dissonant Chords for the Progeny: A Memoir

Lewis H. Carlson was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan, the only child of a Jewish father and a Scandinavian mother. It was the depth of the Great Depression, there was no work, and so-called "mixed" marriages meant additional pressures on a young couple unable to survive the hard times.

After the marriage ended in divorce, the young boy lived with his grandparents while his mother returned to college to get her teaching degree. Following an insecure childhood, he became an indifferent student, a frustrated pursuer of the fairer sex, and a military misfit before eventually achieving reasonable competence as a fly-fisherman, a lover of animals, and a gently radical professor of history. He also found a lovely Swedish girl to be his lifetime companion.

He offers this sage advice in the introduction to his memoir: "Listen to your inner voices, which are very different than what passes for truth in our mass-mediated, myth-laden, materialistic society. Be nostalgic about the future because it belongs to you, and not to those who demand that you live in a mythical past they themselves created."

This is his story, told with the humor he employs to stumble across the hurdles of life.

Author: H. Carlson Lewis H. Carlson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 01/15/2010
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781440191855

About the Author
Lewis H. Carlson is a retired professor of history and director of American Studies at Western Michigan University. He has written several books, including We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II POWs. He and his wife, Simone, live in Austin, Texas, and Ludington, Michigan.

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