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The Amalgamation Polka -Stephen Wright (2006) Stated 1st Ed. / Signed by Author
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed By
- Author
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780679451174
- Book Title
- Amalgamation Polka
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 23.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
067945117X
ISBN-13
9780679451174
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038690414
Product Key Features
Book Title
Amalgamation Polka
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-938382
Dewey Edition
23
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Reviews
"It is precisely Wright's ability to capture the raw beauty and immediacy of an earlier America while reflecting on its moral contradictions the makesThe Amalgamation Polkasuch a great pleasure to read. [He is] a master who deserves a wide audience." --John Hammond,San Antonio Express-News "Endlessly beguiling [by] an extravagantly talented novelist. . . It offers something rare in historical novels . . . the vertiginous sensation of a tilt forward into the unknown. This, after all, is what history feels like to the people who live through it, the ones with no idea what will happen next and an uncertain grasp on who the good guys will turn out to be. It feels like the world as you know it, dissolving and re-forming into an unimaginable and unnavigable new configuration. It feels like now . . . 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, front page,New York Times Book Review "Yes, yes, there is a civil war, and there's a president to be assassinated. But that's not why you'll read on. It's the world itself, imagined and recognizable as never before, that will make you turn the page. The writing is so good that you forget you're reading about the past; you lean forward to see what remarkable turn will come next, what rich details will arise in a world that is grotesque, flame lit, driven by money and possession. The language is so generously arcane and richly evocative that it begins to feel, well, as if it might just be the future." --Tom Chiarella,Esquire "This dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy speaks uncannily from within its period, in the tradition of heartbroken humor which America's 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 "An omnivorous approach to the period [of] Bible-thumping abolitionists, fire-breathing secessionists, the Underground Railroad and a bitterly unamalgamated America reunited only after the deaths of 600,000 soldiers, North and South . . . There are shades of Hawthorne, Irving and Melville, little tonal shifts from chapter to chapter; [and in the] battle scenes, we feel as if we've stumbled across the infernal manuscripts of a long-lost literary talent, as if the scary ellipses ofThe Red Badge of Couragewere being filled in by a chronicler as ravenous for bodily data as Whitman." --Mark Rozzo,Los Angeles Times Book Review "Existentially astonishing . . . Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it." --Diane Roberts,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Summoning virtually every shade in the American canon (Melville to Cormac McCarthy, Twain to Pynchon) yet possessed of a rollicking, morbid tone all its own, Stephen Wright'sThe Amalgamation Polkadoes for the Civil War era what the author's previous books did for the late 20th century . . . Wright's acute attention to the shapes and sounds of words--and the resultant renewal of the familiar stuff of history--will bring a smile to your own lips as it sets your brain on fire." --Jason McBride,Village Voice "A grand and bizarre epic of the Civil War era [that] works brilliantly because Wright appears to have created this story not as a 21st-century author commenting on 19th-century values, but as someone living through, and struggling against, this moment in history. This view from deep inside . . . bestows profound rewards." --Carol Iaciofano,The Boston Globe "A work of high imagination, and we have never seen the time or its people portrayed quite like this." --Art Winslow,Chi, " It is precisely Wright's ability to capture the raw beauty and immediacy of an earlier America while reflecting on its moral contradictions the makes "The Amalgamation Polka "such a great pleasure to read. [He is] a master who deserves a wide audience." --John Hammond, "San Antonio Express-News" " Endlessly beguiling [by] an extravagantly talented novelist. . . It offers something rare in historical novels . . . the vertiginous sensation of a tilt forward into the unknown. This, after all, is what history feels like to the people who live through it, the ones with no idea what will happen next and an uncertain grasp on who the good guys will turn out to be. It feels like the world as you know it, dissolving and re-forming into an unimaginable and unnavigable new configuration. It feels like now . . . 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, front page, "New York Times Book Review" " Yes, yes, there is a civil war, and there's a president to be assassinated. But that's not why you'll read on. It's the world itself, imagined and recognizable as never before, that will make you turn the page. The writing is so good that you forget you're reading about the past; you lean forward to see what remarkable turn will come next, what rich details will arise in a world that is grotesque, flame lit, driven by money and possession. The language is so generously arcane and richly evocative that it begins to feel, well, as if it might just be the future." --Tom Chiarella, "Esquire" " This dark and lyrical tale of madness andprophecy speaks uncannily from within its period, in the tradition of heartbroken humor which America's 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 " An omnivorous approach to the period [of] Bible-thumping abolitionists, fire-breathing secessionists, the Underground Railroad and a bitterly unamalgamated America reunited only after the deaths of 600,000 soldiers, North and South . . . There are shades of Hawthorne, Irving and Melville, little tonal shifts from chapter to chapter; [and in the] battle scenes, we feel as if we've stumbled across the infernal manuscripts of a long-lost literary talent, as if the scary ellipses of "The Red Badge of Courage" were being filled in by a chronicler as ravenous for bodily data as Whitman." --Mark Rozzo, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" " Existentially astonishing . . . Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it." --Diane Roberts, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" " Summoning virtually every shade in the American canon (Melville to Cormac McCarthy, Twain to Pynchon) yet possessed of a rollicking, morbid tone all its own, Stephen Wright's "The Amalgamation Polka" does for the Civil War era what the author's previous books did for the late 20th century . . . Wright's acute attention to the shapes and sounds of words--and the resultant renewal of the familiar stuff of history--will bring a smile to your own lips as it sets your brain on fire." --Jason McBride, "Village Voice" " A grand and bizarre epic of the Civil War era [that] works brilliantly because Wright appears to have created this story not as a 21st-century author commenting on 19th-century values, but as someone living through, and struggling against, this moment in history. This view from deep inside . . . bestows profound rewards." --Carol Iaciofano, "The Boston Globe" " A work of high imagination, and we have never seen the time or its people portrayed quite like this." --Art Winslow, "Chicago Tribune" " A soaring work by an extremely talented writer rapidly establishing himself as one of the major talents of our time . . . [Wright] has taken a time we t, "It is precisely Wright's ability to capture the raw beauty and immediacy of an earlier America while reflecting on its moral contradictions the makes "The Amalgamation Polka "such a great pleasure to read. [He is] a master who deserves a wide audience." --John Hammond, "San Antonio Express-News" "Endlessly beguiling [by] an extravagantly talented novelist. . . It offers something rare in historical novels . . . the vertiginous sensation of a tilt forward into the unknown. This, after all, is what history feels like to the people who live through it, the ones with no idea what will happen next and an uncertain grasp on who the good guys will turn out to be. It feels like the world as you know it, dissolving and re-forming into an unimaginable and unnavigable new configuration. It feels like now . . . 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, front page, "New York Times Book Review" "Yes, yes, there is a civil war, and there's a president to be assassinated. But that's not why you'll read on. It's the world itself, imagined and recognizable as never before, that will make you turn the page. The writing is so good that you forget you're reading about the past; you lean forward to see what remarkable turn will come next, what rich details will arise in a world that is grotesque, flame lit, driven by money and possession. The language is so generously arcane and richly evocative that it begins to feel, well, as if it might just be the future." --Tom Chiarella, "Esquire" "This dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy speaks uncannily from within itsperiod, in the tradition of heartbroken humor which America's 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 "An omnivorous approach to the period [of] Bible-thumping abolitionists, fire-breathing secessionists, the Underground Railroad and a bitterly unamalgamated America reunited only after the deaths of 600,000 soldiers, North and South . . . There are shades of Hawthorne, Irving and Melville, little tonal shifts from chapter to chapter; [and in the] battle scenes, we feel as if we've stumbled across the infernal manuscripts of a long-lost literary talent, as if the scary ellipses of "The Red Badge of Courage" were being filled in by a chronicler as ravenous for bodily data as Whitman." --Mark Rozzo, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Existentially astonishing . . . Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it." --Diane Roberts, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" "Summoning virtually every shade in the American canon (Melville to Cormac McCarthy, Twain to Pynchon) yet possessed of a rollicking, morbid tone all its own, Stephen Wright's "The Amalgamation Polka" does for the Civil War era what the author's previous books did for the late 20th century . . . Wright's acute attention to the shapes and sounds of words--and the resultant renewal of the familiar stuff of history--will bring a smile to your own lips as it sets your brain on fire." --Jason McBride, "Village Voice" "A grand and bizarre epic of the Civil War era [that] works brilliantly because Wright appearsto have created this story not as a 21st-century author commenting on 19th-century values, but as someone living through, and struggling against, this moment in history. This view from deep inside . . . bestows profound rewards." --Carol Iaciofano, "The Boston Globe" "A work of high imagination, and we have never seen the time or its people portrayed quite like this." --Art Winslow, "Chicago Tribune" "A soaring work by an extremely talented writer rapidly establishing himself as one of the major talents of our time . . . [Wright] has taken a time we think we know
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the child of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause-a conflict that ultimately costs his mother her life and comples Liberty, in hopes of reconciling the familial disunion, to escape from the cauldron of war into a bedlam more distubing yet. Rich in characters heartbreaking and bloodcurdling, comic and horrific this books is shot through with politics and dreams, and it captures great swaths of the American experience, from village to metropolis to plantation, from the Erie Canal to the Bahamas, from Kansas to the fulfillment of the, Hailed by the "San Francisco Chronicle "as " a bright star in the literary sky, " Stephen Wright now extends his astonishing accomplishment with a Civil War novel unlike any other. Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood limned with fugitive slaves moving through hidden passageways in the house, his Uncle Potter's free-soil adventure stories whose remarkable violence sets the tone of the mounting national crisis, and the inevitable distress that befalls his mother whenever letters arrive from her parents-- a conflict that ultimately costs her her life and compels Liberty, in hopes of reconciling the familial disunion, to escape first into the cauldron of war and then into a bedlam more disturbing still. Rich in characters both heartbreaking and bloodcurdling, comic and horrific, "The Amalgamation Polka "is shot through with politics and dreams, and it captures great swaths of the American experience, from village to metropolis to plantation, from the Erie Canal to the Bahamas, from Bloody Kansas to the fulfillment of the killing fields. Yet for all the brutality and tragedy, this novel is exuberant in the telling and its wide compassion, brimming with the language, manners, hopes, and fears of its time-- all of this so transformed by Stephen Wright's imaginative compass that places and events previously familiar are rendered new and strange, terrifying and stirring. Instantly revelatory, constantly mesmerizing, this is the work of a major writer at the top of his form., From a star of the first magnitude (The Washington Post Book World) comes a Civil War novel like no other: heartbreaking and bloodcurdling, comic and horrific, and shot through with politics and dreams.
LC Classification Number
PS3573.R5433A83 2006
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