Memories of My Father Watching TV + Lacking Character [ARC]
Language: English
Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1998
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Stated First Edition, 1998. Sold together w/a gratis Advance Reader's Copy of Curtis White's novel, Lacking Character. Bright, clean & tight copies, unread, in Fine condition. "MEMORIES OF MY FATHER WATCHING TV has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in 'Combat,' 'Highway Patrol,' 'Bonanza,' and other television shows (and one movie) from the 1950s and '60s. [] Comic in many ways, MEMORIES is finally a sad lament of a father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience." [publisher copy] "Witheringly smart, grotesquely funny, grimly comprehensive, and so moving as to be wrenching."--David Foster Wallace. + LACKING CHARACTER, Uncorrected Advance Reader's Copy from Melville House, 2018. "In the spirit of 'transcendental buffoonery,' Curtis White's long-awaited return to fiction is fun in the extreme. The story begins when a masked man with 'a message both obscure and appalling' appears at the door of the Marquis claiming a matter of life and death, declaring, 'I stand falsely accused of an atrocity!' [] Dispatched by the Queen of Spells from the Outer Hebrides, the Masked Man's message was really a polite request for the Marquis (a video game-playing burnout) to help him enroll in some community college vocational classes. But the exchange gets botched . . . badly. And our masked man is now lost in America, encountering its absurdities at every turn, and cursing those responsible for this cruel fate--especially his author. [] In a time obsessed with the crisis du jour, White asks us to remember what it's like to laugh, to be a little silly even, in order to reclaim what used to be fundamental to us--the strength to create our own worlds." [publisher copy] "Raw, rude, and rowdy metaphysical slapstick, packed with buffoonery, frantic, at times wistful--LACKING CHARACTER is meant to amuse, piss off and, above all, distract from prevailing, pandemic lunacies."--Rikki Ducornet. Pristine paperbacks w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, square & tight bindings w/no creases in spines & no jackets as issued.…
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- Title
- Memories of My Father Watching TV + Lacking Character [ARC]
- Author
- Curtis White
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1564781895
- ISBN 13
- 9781564781895
- Edition
- Special Edition
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