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In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefabricated suburb in California - where White grew up and which is the basis for this novel. From the vantage point of anoff-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned, The Idea Of Home is a mix of the personal and the philosophical in an energetic collage that would resemble the biographies of Nietzsche and Mark Twain if they had grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and '60s.
Author: Curtis White
ISBN-10: 1564783707
ISBN-13: 9781564783707
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 203
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.62h x 5.08w x 0.60d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2005 pg. 192
Curtis White is an American essayist and author. He serves as professor of English at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, and as President of the board of directors of the Center for Book Culture.
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