Pacific Agony
$39.87
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2009
Summary
An acidic, satiric novel in the form of a travelogue of the American northwest, complete with annotations by an outraged local.“I gazed out my window on the sea of dark clouds as my shaking seat jiggled the image into double vision; and I pictured the flat, geometrically divided western landscapes below, wondering why anyone still bothered to travel in this cookie-cutter country. What was the use of visiting identical reproductions of the same Wal-Mart or adding new encounters of equally stre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350828 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350822 |
| Author: | Bruce Benderson |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Benderson displays great skill at writing both the old erudite crank and the glossy cheerleader, and the end result is a novel that is more about interior terrain than the land outside our window. The book reads more like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Passive-Aggressiveness, with commentary by some anonymous, brain-dead copywriter for Seattle Metropolitan magazine. It’s a delicious combination.
—The StrangerBruce Benderson’s Pacific Agony is a welcome literary evisceration of the effects twenty years of ‘bourgeois gentrification’ have exerted on the American landscape.
—The Evergreen ReviewAbout The Author
Bruce Benderson
Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian- Story of an Obsession, winner of France’s prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e), 2009.)
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