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Notable American Women: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries Original) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Notable American WomenThe acclaimed author of "The Age of Wire and String" writes an allegory of the power and impotence of modern women. On a farm in "Ohio, " a mother and father attempt to raise a boy without feelings. He tells the only story a boy with no feelings can, until the arrival of Jane Dark, whose fierce belief in Silence brings the family to a terrible crisis.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 19 March 2002
- Format: Paperback 243 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780375713781 ISBN 10: 0375713786
- Sales rank: 371,118
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Full description for Notable American Women
Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, "The""Age of Wire and String. "With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its own reality. On a farm in Ohio, American women led by Jane Dark practice all means of behavior modification in an attempt to attain complete stillness and silence. Witnessing (and subjected to) their cultish actions is one Ben Marcus, whose father, Michael Marcus, may be buried in the back yard, and whose mother, Jane Marcus, enthusiastically condones the use of her son for (generally unsuccessful) breeding purposes, among other things. Inventing his own uses for language, the author Ben Marcus has written a harrowing, hilarious, strangely moving, altogether engrossing work of fiction that will be read and argued over for years to come.
