What Ever: A Living Novel
Autor Heather Woodburyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2003
—Fintan O’Toole, The Irish times
Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world—Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel. Taking off from her acclaimed one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury continually surprises in this novel with her ability to create new forms while always locating the unique, resonant humanity that links all the characters to one another—and to the reader.
“May be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses . . . wildly funny and infinitely sad.”
—Fintan O’Toole, The Irish times
Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world—Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel. Taking off from her acclaimed one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury continually surprises in this novel with her ability to create new forms while always locating the unique, resonant humanity that links all the characters to one another—and to the reader.
—Fintan O’Toole, The Irish times
Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world—Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel. Taking off from her acclaimed one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury continually surprises in this novel with her ability to create new forms while always locating the unique, resonant humanity that links all the characters to one another—and to the reader.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780571211722
ISBN-10: 0571211720
Pagini: 331
Dimensiuni: 140 x 209 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Colecția Faber & Faber
ISBN-10: 0571211720
Pagini: 331
Dimensiuni: 140 x 209 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Colecția Faber & Faber
Notă biografică
Heather Woodbury was born in northern California. After working in New York City as a barmaid, go-go dancer, and catering waitress as well as a performance artist, in 2001 she moved to Los Angeles, where she now lives.
Descriere
Taking off from her one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury focuses on the lives of more than a dozen characters in this unique fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel.