01648cam a2200337 4500 607535570 TxAuBib 20110623120000.0 110114s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011001859 9780307265814 0307265811 DLC DLC TxAuBib Harrigan, Stephen, 1948- Remember Ben Clayton : a novel / by Stephen Harrigan. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 353 p. Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fortune and his own prideful spirit have driven him from New York into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. His adult daughter, Maureen, serves as his assistant, although she has artistic ambitions of her own and is beginning to understand how her own career--perhaps even her life--has become hostage to her driven father's "wild pursuit of glory." When Lamar Clayton, an aging, heartbroken rancher, offers Gil a commission to create a memorial statue of his son Ben, who was killed in the war, Gil seizes the opportunity to create what he believes will be his greatest achievement. 20110623. Fathers and sons Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Sculptors Fiction. Art Fiction. Families Texas Fiction. Sons Death Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Casualties Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Domestic fiction. TXMIT