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Idea of Home
Curtis White
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Description for Idea of Home
paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 203 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564783707
SKU
V9781564783707
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About Curtis White
Curtis White is the author of the novels Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. A widely acclaimed essayist, his work appears regularly in Context and Harper's. He is an English professor at Illinois State University and the current president of the Center for Book Culture/Dalkey Archive Press
Reviews for Idea of Home
"The Idea of Home regurgitates a form of American madness into one of the cleverest, most lucid free-for-alls I can remember."
Paul Auster
Paul Auster