American Genius
By:Lynne Tillman
Published on 2006-09-10 by Soft Skull Press
Lynne Tillman’s previous novels have won her both popular approval and critical praise from such literary heavyweights as Edmund White and Colm Tóibín. With American Genius, her first novel since 1998's No Lease on Life, she shows what might happen if Jane Austen were writing in 21st-century America. Employing her trademark crystalline prose and intricate, hypnotic sentences, Tillman fashions a microcosm of American democracy: a scholarly colony functioning like Melville’s Pequod. In this otherworld, competing values — rationality and irrationality, generosity and selfishness, love and lust, shame and honor — collide through a witty narrative, cycling through such disparate tropes as skin disease, chair design, and Manifest Destiny. All this is folded into the narrator’s memories and emotional life, culminating in a séance that may offer escape and transcendence — or perhaps nothing. Grand and minute, elegiac and hilarious, Lynne Tillman expands the possibilities of the American novel in this dazzling read.
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Colm Tóibín, that award-winning novelist of Any Leaderand Brooklyn, converts this notice in the sophisticated marriages amongst dads plus sons—particularly all the trepidation within fictional the big boys Oscar Wilde, Billy Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and then their very own fathers. Wilde loathed this pops, despite the fact identified that they are very much alike. Joyce's gregarious biological dad driven his toddler provided by Ireland in europe because of her volatile poise not to mention drinking. Whilst Yeats's mother, your panther, ended up being it seems like an excellent conversationalist who is yack is additional lustrous compared to art she or he produced. All these well-known fellas and therefore the fathers what people given a hand to figure all of them happen survive on Tóibín's retelling, just as Dublin's vibrant inhabitants.
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