Adventures of Mao on the Long March

by Frederic Tuten, John Updike (Introduction)

Overview

"Almost too good to be true. The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is always solid, meaty and full of ideas. The form is strange and intriguing." -- The New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714530215
Publisher:	Boyars, Marion Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/28/1997
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	121
Product dimensions:	5.48(w) x 8.24(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Frederic Tuten is the author of Tintin in the New World, The Green Hour, and Self Portraits, among other fiction. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Writing. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

Although LJ's reviewer found the book "too cerebral to be effective," he nonetheless praised Tuten for being able to "reduce Mao to human dimensions, to present his loves, his doubts, and his fears." In addition, the author "writes well and is knowledgeable" (LJ 12/1/71).

Library Journal

"Delightful and original—funny and bitter and serious."

Iris Murdoch

"Frederic Tuten has written a violently hilarious book. The Adventures of Mao is soda pop, a cold towel, a shady spot under a tree for culture-clogged foot soldiers on the American long march."

Susan Sontag

"A work of genius and by far the best ‘post-modernist’ novel…Mao stands alone as a masterpiece of its kind."

Oscar Hijuelos

"The Adventures of Mao on the Long March provides an intelligent, taut, and entertaining change from conventional novels. Its substance is satisfyingly solid and satisfyingly mysterious. "

The New Yorker - John Updike