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Sister Carrie (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Lauren Fairbanks
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Description for Sister Carrie (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Sister Carrie is a first novel by a woman writer possessing such an original voice and slashing, surrealistic wit that she is sure to take her place at the forefront of cutting-edge fiction writers. Carrie Meeber leaves her stifling Florida home for Chicago, where she enters the related fields of advertising and prostitution. As an unflappable narrator makes inquiries into her bizarre life, a cartoonish, hyperkinetic, blaring street world envelops the reader. Depraved characters parade themselves and their crass literary leanings; many keep journals, out of which Carrie is revealed with stylistic pyrotechnics. Fairbanks's scrappy, fantastic, debauched characters reveal themselves ... Read more
Sister Carrie is a first novel by a woman writer possessing such an original voice and slashing, surrealistic wit that she is sure to take her place at the forefront of cutting-edge fiction writers. Carrie Meeber leaves her stifling Florida home for Chicago, where she enters the related fields of advertising and prostitution. As an unflappable narrator makes inquiries into her bizarre life, a cartoonish, hyperkinetic, blaring street world envelops the reader. Depraved characters parade themselves and their crass literary leanings; many keep journals, out of which Carrie is revealed with stylistic pyrotechnics. Fairbanks's scrappy, fantastic, debauched characters reveal themselves ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564780706
SKU
V9781564780706
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Reviews for Sister Carrie (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
"This is an exhilarating debut by an enormously gifted writer."
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