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Description for Unbabbling
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
A novel. In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner, he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown, gathering strength for the next round.
A novel. In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner, he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown, gathering strength for the next round.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564781642
SKU
V9781564781642
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Ref
99-15
About Reyoung
Reyoung earned his B.A. in literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and then spent severalyears in the army trained as a Russian linguist.
Reviews for Unbabbling
"Ambitious and passionately written... REYoung's style of compressing material is unique and viable; time passes so swiftly that events seem pancaked on one another."
Harvey Pekar, Austin Chronicle "REYoung unveils a social babble that masks the bankrupt spiritual and emotional quality of human existence... It is a disturbing book, but it is disturbing because it effectively captures how the ... Read more
Harvey Pekar, Austin Chronicle "REYoung unveils a social babble that masks the bankrupt spiritual and emotional quality of human existence... It is a disturbing book, but it is disturbing because it effectively captures how the ... Read more