Memoirs of Hecate County (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Wilson, Edmund

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ISBN 10: 1590170938 ISBN 13: 9781590170939

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 2004

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"There is a true whiff of hell in Hecate County--in the low ceilings and cheap underwear of the sex idyll, the clothes and neuroses of the copulators....After 1946, Hecate Counties would spread and multiply and set the new cultural tone. The suburban home would replace the city street as the theater of hopes; private fulfillment and not public justice would set the pace of the pursuit of happiness. Wilson foretold it, casting his fiction in the coming mode, of sexual candor, dark sardonic fantasy, and confessional fragment."
-- John Updike

"The devil has a field day in suburbia. The main scene of the story (when it is not Manhattan Island) is in the countryside somewhere on the commuters' cocktail circuit near New York. Outwardly it is realistic down to the last croquet set. But it is also obviously named for Hecate, that three-headed goddess of black magic, nightmares and the underworld..."
-- The New York Times

"The stories thus rattle with tension...the unasked question these tales seem to answer is, What will happen to the Revolution? Or, since each story is a reminiscence from the 1930s back to the pre-Crash 1920s, Which legacy will endure, that of the Jazz Age or the Red Decade? Vanderbilt or Winthrop?"
-- Rain Taxi

Reseña del editor:

The long-suppressed memoir of sexual fantasy in a small town explores the quiet suburban world where sexual desire is in the air, focusing on the humorous story of a man caught up in several love affairs at once. Original.

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• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1590170938
• ISBN 13: 9781590170939
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472