The Cry of the Sloth (Indiespensible)
Language: English
Published by Coffee House Press, 2009
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA
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Condition: Used - As new
£ 16.97
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Grey suede boards with silver lettering, goldenrod printed endpapers, signed & numbered (#293) on special Indiespensible page. Fine copy, no slipcase or other Indiespensible materials.
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- Title
- The Cry of the Sloth (Indiespensible)
- Author
- Savage, Sam
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1566892317
- ISBN 13
- 9781566892315
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 10 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x7
- Seller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction
Set in middle America during the economic hard times of the Nixon era, this tragicomic, epistolary masterpiece chronicles everything Andrew Whittaker—literary journal editor, negligent landlord, and aspiring novelist—commits to paper over the course of four critical months.
From his letters, diary entries, and fragments of fiction, to grocery lists and posted signs, we find our hero hounded by tenants and creditors, harassed by a loathsome local arts group, tormented by his ex-wife, and living on a diet of fried Spam, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort. Determined to redeem his failures and eviscerate his enemies, Whittaker hatches a grand plan. But as winter nears, his difficulties accumulate, and the disorder of his life threatens to overwhelm him.
A send-up of the literary life and the loneliness and madness that accompanies it, Sam Savage proves that all the evidence is in the writing, that all the world is, indeed, a stage, and that escape from the mind’s prison requires a command performance.
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