Purple America

Purple America

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Rick Moody

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 304


A tour de force, a critical and commercial sensation in the US, and a book that must contend for all the literary prizes - with this book, Rick Moody, in one bound, lands in the very front rank of American writers. The Great American Novel of its year The fission of a nuclear family, of a nuclear reactor and of the idea of America A novel that honours the classical unities - it arcs perfectly across one long, long day in New England - but is thoroughly contemporary in its understanding of the anxieties, paradoxes and desolate dreams of Our Age Astonishing observational and metaphorical skill The Holy Trinity of all-American literature, Updike, Bellow and Roth, are now in their twilight years. Here is the first of the next generation to stake a claim on permanence and greatness
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Rick Moody

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 304


A tour de force, a critical and commercial sensation in the US, and a book that must contend for all the literary prizes - with this book, Rick Moody, in one bound, lands in the very front rank of American writers. The Great American Novel of its year The fission of a nuclear family, of a nuclear reactor and of the idea of America A novel that honours the classical unities - it arcs perfectly across one long, long day in New England - but is thoroughly contemporary in its understanding of the anxieties, paradoxes and desolate dreams of Our Age Astonishing observational and metaphorical skill The Holy Trinity of all-American literature, Updike, Bellow and Roth, are now in their twilight years. Here is the first of the next generation to stake a claim on permanence and greatness