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Curtis White's long-awaited return to fiction reminds us that the founder of one of American literature's most vibrant and innovative movements is still the King of transcendental buffoonery. The story begins when a masked man appears in the night at the door of the Marquis, proclaiming a matter of life and death: I stand falsely accused of an atrocity Except he's not, really; he's just trying to get the attention of the Marquis (a video game-playing burnout) to help him enroll in some community college vocational classes. And so the exchange gets badly botched, and our masked man is soon lost in a maddening America, encountering its absurdities at every turn, and cursing his cruel fate. In a time with the crisis du jour, White asks us to remember what it's like to laugh--to be a little silly even--in order to reclaim what used to be fundamental to us: the strength to create our own worlds.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1612196780
ISBN13:9781612196787
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:Melville House Publishing
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"
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