As the Wolf Howls at My Door
by Brossard, Chandler
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 091658397X
- ISBN 13
- 9780916583972
- Seller
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About This Item
Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gently read, almost new. A divinely delectible highly strange amalgamation of wit. Brossard takes on the '70s: a time of despair as the dreams and ideals of the '60s were cashed in for political opportunism and crass materialism. America's inglorious exit from Vietnam, the increasingly desperate actions of counterculture protest groups, the rise of repressive CIA operations, the commodification of the American way; all this and more is captured here in Brossard's inimitable style. Style discards realism in favor of a free-form fiction that mixes French surrealism and theatrical absurdity with Beat improvisation and performance art confrontation. Brossard's avalanche of language is outrageous. A kind of verbal delirium possesses the text, which on one level may be the collective fantasy lives of a counter cultural group in Paris; on another, the psychotic outpourings of a woman named Decca Aldridge; on yet another, a script by impresario Socks Peelmunder for a guerrilla theater performance; and on the final level, the gamy underside of America's subconscious - a terrifying lava flow of provincial prejudices, racial fears, political paranoia, and sexist attitudes all speaking in tongues in a desperate attempt to bolt the door against the return of the repressed. Not since Naked Lunch has the American dream been assaulted with such ferocious verbal energy.
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- Bookseller
- Les livres des Limbes (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12505
- Title
- As the Wolf Howls at My Door
- Author
- Brossard, Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 091658397X
- ISBN 13
- 9780916583972
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Place of Publication
- Elmwood Park, Il
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- ABI PM BB1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Biblio, ABI;
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