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Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures)

Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures)

Updike, John
Leibowitz, Jerry
Beller, Miles

Paperback

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1478160713
ISBN13: 9781478160717
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 9 2012
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
DREAM OF VENUS (OR LIVING PICTURES), a novel set in the 1939 New York World's Fair, is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever know. Meshing actualities with invention, DREAM OF VENUS renders a future past that is nostalgic and predictive, an account of hope and longing at the onset of World War II. Focusing on Zeke Lichtenquist - -an artist moved into the Fair's Town of Tomorrow -- VENUS takes us on a search for authenticity and meaning. Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and the Fair's president Grover Whalen all pop in and out, players in a fabled New York of the late 1930s. Publishers Weekly compared the novel to the work of Nathaniel West, William Gaddis, and E.L. Doctorow, lauding DREAM for challenging the distinction between fiction and fact. Book Magazine recommended DREAM OF VENUS as a risky and ingenious experiment that makes the novel like the fairgrounds. Donald Margulies praised DREAM OF VENUS as an impressive work of historical fiction, the author deploying the past as a prism through which he views our present and has ironic, witty, and disturbing things to say about the particular dream life of Americans. Steve Erickson judged DREAM OF VENUS the gateway to a secret new literature...beyond the limits of what today's constricted fiction can conceive.

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