Java Head - Hergesheimer, Joseph
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In the mid-19th century, the Ammidon and Dunsack families of Salem, Massachusetts, have experienced very different fortunes in the merchant sailing trade to the Far East. The successful Ammidons revel in the captaincy of their adventurous and restless son, Gerrit. The Dunsacks' future rests on the shoulders of the opium-addicted and vindictive son Edward. But as Gerrit returns from a voyage to China, he brings with him something that will shake the staid society of Salem and his family's position in it, something far more potent than Edward Dunsack's opium.

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In the mid-19th century, the Ammidon and Dunsack families of Salem, Massachusetts, have experienced very different fortunes in the merchant sailing trade to the Far East. The successful Ammidons revel in the captaincy of their adventurous and restless son, Gerrit. The Dunsacks' future rests on the shoulders of the opium-addicted and vindictive son Edward. But as Gerrit returns from a voyage to China, he brings with him something that will shake the staid society of Salem and his family's position in it, something far more potent than Edward Dunsack's opium.
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Joseph Hergesheimer was an early twentieth-century American writer best known for his realism novels depicting decadent life among the wealthy. Hergesheimer was born February 15, 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended a Quaker school and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Hergesheimer released his debut novel, The Lay Anthony, in 1914. Three Black Pennies, published in 1917, detailed the imaginary lives of three generations of Pennsylvania ironmasters and established the author's approach of dealing with upperclass characters through a floridly descriptive manner known as "aestheticism." Hergesheimer's fame varied dramatically over his lifetime, from a high point of praise and popularity in the 1920s to near-total obscurity by the time he died. Java Head, a miscegenation story told from multiple perspectives that is widely regarded as his best novel, was a huge success, and his flamboyant, ornate, highly descriptive style (best seen in works such as the travelogue San Cristobal de la Habana) was praised for its elegance and power.