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Description for The Tar Baby
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, ?"The Tar Baby"?is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.
Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, ?"The Tar Baby"?is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564780782
SKU
V9781564780782
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Jerome Charyn
A Guggenheim Fellow, Jerome Charyn has taught at Stanford, Rice, and Princeton, and is currently teaching film history at the American University of Paris. Death of a Tango King is his twenty-eighth novel.
Reviews for The Tar Baby
"An important book... an experiment in complex impressionistic and involutional form, striking and original in the extremes..."
Albert J. Guerard, TriQuarterly
Albert J. Guerard, TriQuarterly