| Unbabbling Contributor(s): Reyoung (Author), Reyoung, Reyoung (Author) |
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ISBN: 156478164X ISBN-13: 9781564781642 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1997 Annotation: In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner, he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown, gathering strength for the next round. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97023672 |
| Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.55" W x 8.53" (0.81 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A novel. In the tour de force called America, one of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down. Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner, he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown, gathering strength for the next round. |