Jungle Wedding: Stories

by Clark, Joseph
ISBN: 9780393341904
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Overview


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 divorc e 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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Clark, Joseph
  • ISBN: 9780393341904
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 218
  • Publication Year: 1998
Language: English