| Double Contributor(s): Yglesias, Jose (Author) |
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ISBN: 1558852727 ISBN-13: 9781558852723 Publisher: Arte Publico Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: There were raised fists at the end of Seth's lecture . . . An enormous, bearded young man stood up. "We are free!" the young man called, and whirled and repeated it to the balcony. Free, free, the audience answered. Free, thought Seth. Free of my wife and my shrink. Meet Seth Evergood, distinguished author, lecturer, and split personality. On the surface, he appears to be a dedicated, conscientious, and "liberated" man of the 1960s Left. On the inside, however, Seth is deeply confused, disillusioned, and conflicted about his actions and his very existence. Sometimes the only things that keep him going through the day are drugs, psychoanalysis, and an alarming desire to actually believe his own florid rhetoric. The clash between his inner and outer selves leads Seth Evergood into a dangerous covert adventure on the fringes of radical politics. It is a quest that could end in revolutionary glory or in a big bang. In this, his fourth novel, Jose Yglesias takes on the iconic images and cliches of the 1960s Black Panthers, third-world guerrilla movements, student riots, "consciousness-raising" through drugs and sex, hippie communes, and Flower Power and puts them all into overdrive. The result is a near-surrealistic perspective on an era that, torn between adolescent naivete and "by-any-means-necessary" absolutism, went haywire. You'll do a double-take reading Double Double. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00025944 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.56" W x 8.56" (0.67 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction. At this point in his lectures, Seth always made a fist and raised it high and yelled, All Power to the People He could not do it here outside this elegant restaurant, though, under the canopy of La Gravure; it would look as if he were hailing a taxi, and there was one already there. Is Jose Yglesias's novel an ambivalent meditation on political idealism? Or a caustic satire on sexual hedonism, elitist vanity, and left-wing folly? Stylistic assurance and narrative economy -- Kirkus Reviews. |