Idea of Home |
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Author:
| White, Curtis |
Series title: | American Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-56478-370-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2004 |
Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing
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Imprint: | Dalkey Archive Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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In this, his first novel, White attempts to "imagine a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefab suburb in California - where White grew up. From the vantage point of an off-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned. "The Idea of Home regurgitates a form of American madness into one...
More DescriptionIn this, his first novel, White attempts to "imagine a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefab suburb in California - where White grew up. From the vantage point of an off-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned. "The Idea of Home regurgitates a form of American madness into one of the cleverest, most lucid free-for-alls I can remember" - Paul Auster