Pagan Days by Rumaker, Michael

Pagan Days (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933132594)

Vendor: Michael Rumaker
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Format: Paperback
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Pagan Days by Rumaker, Michael

Pagan Days

$25.00
Pagan Days by Rumaker, Michael

Pagan Days

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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Mickey seems to see and hear everything, revealing as he does, Michael Rumaker's amazing abilities as a novelist. Rumaker has a wonderful eye for realistic detail and an exceptional ear for dialogue. His ability to create realistic American characters living in 20th century America rivals any American novelist I have ever read. Pagan Days is one of the best novels I've read in a lifetime of reading. Michael Rumaker is a working-class Marcel Proust, a great novelist, inspired by memory to write this truly memorable novel. Anne Geismar Mickey's days as a "pagan" open his eyes to an almost mystical, but certainly aesthetic, view of the world where each experience, no matter how difficult or painful, offers him a vision that will carry him through life. Pagan Days enriches our literature, and reinforces that the avant-garde need not be unintelligible to communicate the complexity of being human. Rumaker's characters breathe like Rodin's figures-they are alive, real, sinewy, torn, ecstatic, and transformative. Jeffery Beam

Author: Michael Rumaker
ISBN-10: 1933132590
ISBN-13: 9781933132594
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2013
Pages: 625
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.43d
By Michael Rumaker
By Michael Rumaker
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Michael Rumaker was born March 5, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA, to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. His short stories, Gringos and other stories, appeared in 1967. A revised and expanded version appeared in 1991. He began to write directly about his life as a gay man in the volumes A Day and a Night at the Baths (1979, 2010) and My First Satyrnalia (1981). Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element. In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-1956.

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