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Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 454.
Like so many of Woolf's odysseys into the heart of America's subcultures, ?"Wall to Wall"?traces a modern?Ulysses?in reverse: from a West Coast asylum where he works as an attendant to a Boston asylum where he visits his mother, Claude Squires views roadside America from its weak side--the tough underbelly of the Southwest, Tucson, the Rio Grande, Nogales, The Border--before thrusting himself into Okie's sacred shrine, Oklahoma City, and into the staid Eastern Corridor that ends in Boston. Claude's vehicle is a '59 Thunderhead, a "female beast," which his father, a used-car dealer in L.A., has commissioned him to deliver to ... Read more
Like so many of Woolf's odysseys into the heart of America's subcultures, ?"Wall to Wall"?traces a modern?Ulysses?in reverse: from a West Coast asylum where he works as an attendant to a Boston asylum where he visits his mother, Claude Squires views roadside America from its weak side--the tough underbelly of the Southwest, Tucson, the Rio Grande, Nogales, The Border--before thrusting himself into Okie's sacred shrine, Oklahoma City, and into the staid Eastern Corridor that ends in Boston. Claude's vehicle is a '59 Thunderhead, a "female beast," which his father, a used-car dealer in L.A., has commissioned him to deliver to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9780916583071
SKU
V9780916583071
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Doug Woolf
Woolf was well-respected throughout his career and created some of the most startlingly original works of the twentieth century. At the time of his death in 1992,he had published 10 novels and collections of short stories.
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