The Golden Spur

About this book

IF A YOUNG MAN finds his own father inconveniently ordinary can he choose another? Jonathan Jaimison the engagingly amoral hero comes to New York from Silver City Ohio for exactly such a purpose. Combing through his mothers diaries and the bars and cafs of Greenwich Village Jonathan seeks out the writer or painter whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been all the while committing numerous indiscretions of his own. By the end of the novel Jonathan has figured out not only his paternity but his maternity and best of all himself. Published in 1962 The Golden Spur was Dawn Powells last novel.