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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0142003808
ISBN-13: 9780142003800
Jan 2004
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
464 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
In T. C. Boyle's ninth novel, a group of homesteaders and commune-dwellers in the most frigid part of Alaska find their placid lives disrupted by the clash of ideas and values. Set in 1970, DROP CITY explores the spaced-out worldview of the counterculture, and the tensions that arise when the political and the personal fail to coincide. In DROP CITY, as Boyle says on his website, "What is at stake is freedom. That and survival." Despite the classically hippie trappings of the novel, Boyle never allows his voluminous cast of characters--who include flower children, draft-dodgers, back-to-the-landers, and macho fur-trappers--to slide into caricature.
| Size | | Length: | 464 pages | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[A] big, racy tale....Probably the fullest picture of the hippie culture of the late '60s since Marge Piercy's early fiction, and one of Boyle's best."
Kirkus Reviews (12/15/2002)
"Sentence by sentence, Boyle has always been a fiendishly talented writer, and there's little doubt he knows plenty about the countercultural currents upon which this book speeds along....What is surprising is how soulful DROP CITY frequently is, and how much human complexity Boyle manages to smuggle in under the cover of his jittery, get-this-man-a-decaf prose....Boyle gives us a lot more than simply a line of bong-addled innocents led to slaughter. In its own sly way, this may be his most affecting and emotionally complex novel since WORLD'S END....[I]f anything DROP CITY is 100 pages too short. But Boyle has more than enough room to provide one of the funniest, and at the same time most subtle, novels we've had about the hippie era's slow fade to black."
New York Times Book Review - Dwight Garner (02/23/2003)
"Anybody who takes Boyle for a misanthrope...owes himself a night by the fire with Sess and Pamela. Boyle recounts their marriage and courtship with a romantic playfulness that's altogether charming. Since his earliest stories he's had a knack for describing arcane, sometimes imaginary subcultures in memorable detail, and Sess's indoctrination of Pamela into the beautiful minutiae of life below zero plays to his strengths. [But] whap shaped up as a promising if schematic showdown between selfishness and self-reliance dissipates into a wan retelling of 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'."
Atlantic Monthly - David Kipen (04/01/2003)
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