Mountain passage
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Les Standiford
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
John Dufresne
Third Advisor's Name
Mary G. Free
Date of Defense
1991
Abstract
This novel is the first-person narrative of an underachieving twenty-eight-year-old journalist who convinces himself that he can find fulfillment by climbing the Matterhorn, a dream he once shared with his older, idolized brother, who died before they could achieve it. Forsaking a marriage-minded girlfriend and fledgling sports reporting career in California, Stanley "Rabbit” Goodman decides to sell or abandon everything he owns that can't fit into a backpack, head to Europe, find his brother's former climbing partner and scale the mountain, or die trying. By blending humor with mysticism and action with introspection, Rabbit's entertaining tale poignantly transcends his personal experiences to illustrate the universal human conflicts that arise when one attempts to turn a dream into reality.
Identifier
FI15101693
Recommended Citation
Greenberg, Gary Harlan, "Mountain passage" (1991). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3948.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3948
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