A Perfect Start

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Martha-Grace Duncan, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Emory University Libraries
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2004 Elsevier Inc., its licensors, and contributors.
• Final Published Version (URL): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3221302
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: North Dakota Quarterly
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 3
• Start Page: 156
• End Page: 161
• Keywords: Minnesota; California; Moving; suicide; Childhood; Mental Illness; perfection; Home; paranoia

Abstract

Despite good looks, brilliance, and abundant charm, a man cannot find his place in the world. Convinced that such a place exists, he tries one job after another, taking his young family on a Childe Harold's Pilgrimage through state after state until they arrive at the final cliffs and can go no further.