Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures) by Updike, John

Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478160717)

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Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures) by Updike, John

Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures)

$15.00
Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures) by Updike, John

Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures)

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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DREAM OF VENUS (OR LIVING PICTURES), a novel set in the 1939 New York World's Fair, is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever know. Meshing actualities with invention, DREAM OF VENUS renders a future past that is nostalgic and predictive, an account of hope and longing at the onset of World War II. Focusing on Zeke Lichtenquist - -an artist moved into the Fair's Town of Tomorrow -- VENUS takes us on a search for authenticity and meaning. Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and the Fair's president Grover Whalen all pop in and out, players in a fabled New York of the late 1930s. Publishers Weekly compared the novel to the work of Nathaniel West, William Gaddis, and E.L. Doctorow, lauding DREAM for "challenging the distinction between fiction and fact." Book Magazine recommended DREAM OF VENUS as "a risky and ingenious experiment that makes the novel like the fairgrounds." Donald Margulies praised DREAM OF VENUS as "an impressive work of historical fiction," the author deploying "the past as a prism through which he views our present and has ironic, witty, and disturbing things to say about the particular dream life of Americans." Steve Erickson judged DREAM OF VENUS "the gateway to a secret new literature...beyond the limits of what today's constricted fiction can conceive."

Author: John Updike,Miles Beller
ISBN-10: 1478160713
ISBN-13: 9781478160717
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2012
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d
By John Updike
By John Updike
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MILES BELLER is an editorial board member of the Carl Jung Institute's Psychological Perspectives, and is currently writing TRUE TO LIFE, a book about language and translation. His novel, DREAM OF VENUS (OR LIVING PICTURES), set in the 1939 New York World's Fair, has been compared to Nathaniel West, William Gaddis, and E.L. Doctorow. Publisher's Weekly praised Dream as "challenging the distinction between fiction and fact," and Book Magazine recommended it as "a risky and ingenious experiment that makes the novel like the fairgrounds." Beller has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Review, Harper's Bazaar, and Life magazine. He has taught journalism and writing at USC and UCLA, and was featured in the National Endowment for the Arts' film WHY SHAKESPEARE? Beller was appointed the Joan Nordell Fellow at Harvard University's Houghton Library while a Scholar in Residence at Harvard's Cabot House. Recently the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute awarded Beller a grant for researching a biography of Robert E. Sherwood. Beller is a co-editor of AMERICAN DATELINES; a journalism anthology in its second printing featuring notable reporting from 1700 to the present. Beller is also a board member of The Wonder of Reading and GetLit; nonprofits dedicated to helping youngsters become passionate readers and writers.

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