Word: summerchild
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book's primary action revolves around Jessel's latest assignment--he investigates the mysterious death of a man named Stephen Summerchild, who once held Jessel's own position. Rumors of espionage and exposed state secrets surround Summerchild's death and have aroused the interest of the press; the government tries to quiet them by assigning Jessel to investigate Summerchild's life and work...
...press misreads Summerchild's lifestyle completely; he is at once more simple and more involved than they imagine. Jessel discovers, through transcripts and cassette tapes, that Summerchild worked on an inquiry of his own: along with philosophy professor Elizabeth Serafin, Summerchild searched for the nature of happiness...
Jessel lives vicariously what he believes life had been like for Summerchild and Serafin, based on the skeletal framework he constructs of transcripts, tapes, memos and photographs. As they had sought happiness, so does...
...distance from his own life increases as the story of Summerchild and Serafin (and Jessel) reaches its crescendo, and the characters and plot of his own story become more and more alien...
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