Dhalgren - Softcover

Delany, Samuel R.

3.77

11,389 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819562998 ISBN 13: 9780819562999

Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1996

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When this richly written novel first appeared in 1974, Samuel R. Delany began to sweep up what would eventually exceed a million readers with his tale of Bellona, a city at the center of the United States, shaken by a catastrophe that has unhinged the very structure of reality. Skies darkened by smoke from burning buildings, population reduced to youth gangs, drifters, prophets, and perverts, Bellona is a city where a young man known only as the Kid - poet, lover, and finally a leader of the volatile "scorpions" - tries to create a life for himself and those around him in a landscape where two moons can suddenly shine through the night clouds or a sun thousands of times larger than any ever seen before may rise - and set - in a day. Dhalgren is a novel that interrogates a range of inchoately American oppositions: black and white, male and female, gay and straight, sane and mad.

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" A Joycean tour de force of a novel, Dhalgren... stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass' s Omensetter' s Luck and Nabokov' s Pale Fire) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature." - "The Libertarian Review"

"A Joycean tour de force of a novel, Dhalgren...stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass's Omensetter's Luck and Nabokov's Pale Fire) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature."-"The Libertarian Review"
"A Joycean tour de force of a novel, Dhalgren...stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass's Omensetter's Luck and Nabokov's Pale Fire) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature."-"The Libertarian Review"
"A Joycean tour de force of a novel, Dhalgren stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass s Omensetter s Luck and Nabokov s Pale Fire) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature." "The Libertarian Review""
"A Joycean tour de force of a novel, Dhalgren...stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass's Omensetter's Luck and Nabokov's Pale Fire) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature."-The Libertarian Review

Book Description:

A counter-culture classic and a classic of SF - a young man arrives in a near future US and writes a book that may be DHALGREN.

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