Lacking Character

by White, Curtis
ISBN: 9781612196787
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Overview

Curtis White's long-awaited return to fiction reminds us that the founder of one of American literature's most vibrant and innovative movements is still the King of "transcendental buffoonery."

The story begins when a masked man appears in the night at the door of the Marquis, proclaiming a matter of life and death: "I stand falsely accused of an atrocity "

Except he's not, really; he's just trying to get the attention of the Marquis (a video game-playing burnout) to help him enroll in some community college vocational classes. And so the exchange gets badly botched, and our masked man is soon lost in a maddening America, encountering its absurdities at every turn, and cursing his cruel fate.

In a time 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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: White, Curtis
  • ISBN: 9781612196787
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 2018
Language: English