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Dis//Integration: 2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play
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ISBN10: 0593469933
ISBN13: 9780593469934
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593469934
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
An odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the brilliant (The New Yorker) author of A Different Drummer. [A] lost giant of American literature. --The New Yorker
The linked 2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life journeys of Charles Chig Dunford from his Nanny Eva sermonizing from her front porch, when he is only seventeen, to his peripatetic studies in Reupeo (an anagram of Europe) as a college student, to his unsettled bachelorhood as an English professor at a small Vermont college, where he continues to struggle to finish his life-long study of the Reupeonese author Dupukshamin and find true love. Along the way, as Chig's sentimental education unfolds, we meet an array of memorable characters: John Hoenir, the Hemingway-esque expatriate novelist who takes Chig under his wing; Wendy Whitman, an actress passing for white, who breaks Chig's heart; Merry, his troubled teen-age niece who Chig, in middle-age, agrees to look after; Raymond Winograd, the villainous department chair; Renka Bravo, the alluring dancer who might just make Chig an honest man; and one hundred Africans mysteriously chained together in the lower decks of Chig's homeward-bound transatlantic liner.
The linked 2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play that make up DIS//INTEGRATION follow the life journeys of Charles Chig Dunford from his Nanny Eva sermonizing from her front porch, when he is only seventeen, to his peripatetic studies in Reupeo (an anagram of Europe) as a college student, to his unsettled bachelorhood as an English professor at a small Vermont college, where he continues to struggle to finish his life-long study of the Reupeonese author Dupukshamin and find true love. Along the way, as Chig's sentimental education unfolds, we meet an array of memorable characters: John Hoenir, the Hemingway-esque expatriate novelist who takes Chig under his wing; Wendy Whitman, an actress passing for white, who breaks Chig's heart; Merry, his troubled teen-age niece who Chig, in middle-age, agrees to look after; Raymond Winograd, the villainous department chair; Renka Bravo, the alluring dancer who might just make Chig an honest man; and one hundred Africans mysteriously chained together in the lower decks of Chig's homeward-bound transatlantic liner.
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