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Jungle Wedding: Stories
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ISBN10: 0393341909
ISBN13: 9780393341904
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393341904
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Few writers of fiction have demonstrated so early in their career such a firm grasp of the forms disaster can take as Joseph Clark does in Jungle Wedding. Fewer still have been able to balance their unnerving feeling for apocalypse with an equally unerring sense of the possibilities for grace and transcendence, however provisional.
In the title story a cutting-edge video artist is hired to document a shamanistic New Age wedding ceremony deep in the Central American jungle -- and gets far more than he bargained for. In Public Burning a sociological experiment in the study and surveillance of an average American spirals down into a literally incendiary conclusion. Wild Blue is a tour de force narrative of one man's collision with the scarily dysfunctional American armed forces of the 1970s.
Other stories in Jungle Wedding hold out possibilities for communion, reconciliation, and absolution. In Revenge emotional rescue for a psychologically besieged divorcée arrives in the form of a clearly too-young lust object, while Oasis stages a haunting father-daughter reunion in terrain reminiscent of a Sam Shepard play. Whatever his subject, Clark stakes out his territory with an imaginative authority and vigor of language that is truly exciting.
In the title story a cutting-edge video artist is hired to document a shamanistic New Age wedding ceremony deep in the Central American jungle -- and gets far more than he bargained for. In Public Burning a sociological experiment in the study and surveillance of an average American spirals down into a literally incendiary conclusion. Wild Blue is a tour de force narrative of one man's collision with the scarily dysfunctional American armed forces of the 1970s.
Other stories in Jungle Wedding hold out possibilities for communion, reconciliation, and absolution. In Revenge emotional rescue for a psychologically besieged divorcée arrives in the form of a clearly too-young lust object, while Oasis stages a haunting father-daughter reunion in terrain reminiscent of a Sam Shepard play. Whatever his subject, Clark stakes out his territory with an imaginative authority and vigor of language that is truly exciting.
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