Genoa: A Telling of Wonders (50th Anniversary Edition)

xiv, 217 pp. Includes new introduction by Rick Moody. "First published in 1965, 'Genoa' is Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, the life of Melville, Melville's use and conversion of the Columbus myth, and the story of the Mills brothers--one, an M.D. who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer--vibrate and sing a quintessentially American song."