Description: Going Native by Stephen Wright Originally published in hardcover in 1994 by Farrar Straus and Giroux. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A dutiful husband and father walks out of his life and into a road trip from hell in a novel Toni Morrison calls "astonishing" and Don Delillo proclaims "a slasher classic . . . strange, dark, and funny." Wylie Jones has a happy marriage, beautiful children, and backyard barbecues in his tastefully decorated suburban house. One night he follows a sudden impulse, leaves his wife in bed, and commandeers his neighbors emerald-green Ford Galaxy 500, driving away without a second look. He sheds all traces of his old life in favor of a new name and a new life and drives from town to town, following his deepest impulses where they lead.By turns scathing and hilarious, Stephen Wrights outrageous rollercoaster of sex and violence probes the nihilistic and savage core of the American identity. Author Biography Stephen Wright is a Vietnam veteran, MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the author of four previous novels. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and has taught writing and literature at Iowa, Princeton, Brown, and The New School. He was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City. Review Praise for Processed Cheese "Processed Cheese does for consumerism what Catch-22 did for war."--Stephen King, bestselling author of IT and The Shining PRAISE FOR GOING NATIVE "An astonishing novel." --Toni MorrisonPRAISE FOR STEPHEN WRIGHT Meditations in Green (1983) "Precisely that brutal hallucination we desperately wanted to end." --Don DeLillo "The best that any fiction about this war has offered." --Newsweek M31: A Family Romance (1988) "Beautiful and terrifying. . . . M31 offers a big, bold look at the American family. It takes us far away and very close to home. . . . Stephen Wright is a . . . bright star in the literary sky." --San Francisco Chronicle "M31 is a devastatingly forceful accomplishment and reestablishes its author as a star of the first magnitude." --The Washington Post Book World "Mr. Wrights sentences buzz like high-tension wires. I enjoyed reading every word of M31, literally." --Russell Banks The Amalgamation Polka (2007) "An extravagantly talented novelist. . . . For Wright, America, past and present, is Wonderland, a place of marvels and horrors from which not even the fortunate escape with their heads. " --Laura Miller, The New York Times Book Review "This dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy speaks uncannily from within its period, in the tradition of heartbroken humor, which Americas lapses of faith in its own promise have always evoked in the finest of our storytellers, among whom Stephen Wright here honorably takes his place." --Thomas Pynchon "Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"In novel after unsparing novel-each one gorgeous, too, and full of awe- Stephen Wright has emerged as a kind of modern-day Socrates hectoring a complacent citizenry to have a good hard look at its collective delusions. With Processed Cheese, hes written a novel so outrageous and diagnostic of our current ills, it will prove much stronger than hemlock. If you hope to keep up your venality, America, your cruelties, and your death wish, better string this court jester up by his toes."--Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party Review Quote PRAISE FOR STEPHEN WRIGHT Meditations in Green (1983) "Precisely that brutal hallucination we desperately wanted to end." --Don DeLillo "The best that any fiction about this war has offered." -- Newsweek M31: A Family Romance (1988) "Beautiful and terrifying. . . . M31 offers a big, bold look at the American family. It takes us far away and very close to home. . . . Stephen Wright is a . . . bright star in the literary sky." -- San Francisco Chronicle " M31 is a devastatingly forceful accomplishment and reestablishes its author as a star of the first magnitude." -- The Washington Post Book World "Mr. Wrights sentences buzz like high-tension wires. I enjoyed reading every word of M31, literally." --Russell Banks The Amalgamation Polka (2007) "An extravagantly talented novelist. . . . For Wright, America, past and present, is Wonderland, a place of marvels and horrors from which not even the fortunate escape with their heads. " --Laura Miller, The New York Times Book Review "This dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy speaks uncannily from within its period, in the tradition of heartbroken humor, which Americas lapses of faith in its own promise have always evoked in the finest of our storytellers, among whom Stephen Wright here honorably takes his place." --Thomas Pynchon "Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Details ISBN0316427306 Author Stephen Wright Pages 400 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 0316427306 ISBN-13 9780316427302 Format Paperback Imprint Back Bay Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-01-07 NZ Release Date 2020-01-07 US Release Date 2020-01-07 UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Publisher Back Bay Books Publication Date 2020-01-07 DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126427711;
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