The Utterly Complete History of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Leonard Murphy lived a life of urban subsistence, on the verge of thirty, and still living alone in a studio a block from his parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He worked part time, he took care of his dementia ridden, and hobbled, great uncle Harold. He suffered what he felt were the betrayals of modern life: his parents and Harold growing old, his brother marrying up into a well-to-do Catholic family and converting out of the Murphy’s tradition of atheism. But when Harold dies mysteriously after claiming to be followed by a pair Gaucho detectives, Leonard is sent on a journey into Cambridge’s leftist past to figure out how Harold became alienated from his community and ended up losing a leg. Teaming up with a childhood friend, the local librarian, the director of a historical walking tour, and eventually the Gaucho detectives themselves, Leonard searches Cambridge’s history for how radicalization, community, and his family failed modernity’s great tests.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Montana

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Cleary, Sean Alan

• american history
• american literature
• literature
• political history

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/1103

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-2122