Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by De Vries, Peter

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226143897)

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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by De Vries, Peter

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

$14.00
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by De Vries, Peter

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

$14.00
Format: Paperback
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It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. Anthony's restless adolescent voice is perfectly suited to De Vries's blend of erudite wit and silliness--not to mention his fascination with both language and female anatomy--and it propels Slouching Towards Kalamazoo through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect.


Author: Peter De Vries
ISBN-10: 0226143899
ISBN-13: 9780226143897
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.56d
By Peter De Vries
By Peter De Vries
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Peter De Vries (1910-1993), the man responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms as "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" and "Deep down, he's shallow," was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." But De Vries's life and work was informed as much by sorrow as by wit, and that dynamic is nowhere better seen than in his classics Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb. First published in 1982 and 1965, respectively, these novels reemerge with their sharp satire and biting pain undiluted by time.

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