Come and Join the Dance: A Novel - Softcover
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"With its female bohemian perspective on sex, cold war existentialism and the New York hipster milieu, Come and Join the Dance stands as a Beat urtext, on par with the renegade declarations of On the Road or Howl or Naked Lunch." -Ronna Johnson, author of Girls Who Wore Black "This artful and unaffected first novel by 26-year-old Joyce Glassman reminds us that youth is no fixed quantity or state with an all-explaining adjective. It is a period of becoming whose essence is flux: the lostness or wildness are merely way stations along this road of change." -The New York Times Book Review "Lucid and controlled as a writer, Miss Glassman has a rare gift for the evocative phrase. . . . There are parallels between this novel and those of Francoise Sagan, but the ingenuousness here is of a more honest sort. . . . Tartness reduces sentimentality; compassion balances cleverness." -The Village Voice "Tender and perceptive." -Anniston Star "A poignant and searching tale which effectively captures each character's personality. The threads of life are expertly woven into the fabric to yield an interesting work." -Savannah Morning News "This is a perceptive, emotional story, aptly titled; it could be happening now among the intellectuals at any university in any big city." -Los Angeles Times "Written with talent and wisdom." -Jack Kerouac
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The daring debut of the Beat Generation's first woman novelist It's 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, "What if you lived your entire life without urgency? just before going out to make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be "good", marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that comes from existential freedom. After breaking up with the Columbia boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers "outlaws" the brave and fragile Kay, who has moved into a rundown hotel, in order to "see more than fifty percent when I walk down the street" the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter, the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of Kay's unrequited devotion. This fascinating novel-which the author began writing a year before her encounter with Jack Kerouac-is a young woman's complex response to the liberating messages of the Beat Generation. In a subversive feminist move, Johnson gives her heroine all the freedom the male Beat writers reserved for men to travel her own road"
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- VerlagOpen Road Media
- Erscheinungsdatum2014
- ISBN 10 1480481335
- ISBN 13 9781480481336
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten186
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The daring debut of the Beat Generation's first woman novelistIt's 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, "What if you lived your entire life without urgency " just before going out to make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be "good," marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that comes from existential freedom.After breaking up with the Columbia boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers "outlaws": the brave and fragile Kay, who has moved into a rundown hotel, in order to "see more than fifty percent when I walk down the street"; the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter, the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of Kay's unrequited devotion.This fascinating novelwhich the author began writing a year before her encounter with Jack Kerouacis a young woman's complex response to the liberating messages of the Beat Generation. In a subversive feminist move, Johnson gives her heroine all the freedom the male Beat writers reserved for men to travel her own road. Artikel-Nr. 9781480481336
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Zustand: New. Über den AutorJoyce Johnson was born in 1935 in New York City, the setting for all her fiction: Come and Join the Dance, recognized as the first Beat novel by a woman writer, Bad Connections, and In t. Artikel-Nr. 173487625
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