Tar Baby

by Jerome Charyn, Charyn Jerome

Overview

Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly,  "The Tar Baby" is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564780782
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/1995
Series:	American Literature
Edition description:	First Dalkey Archive Edition
Pages:	243
Product dimensions:	4.99(w) x 7.96(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

A Guggenheim Fellow, Jerome Charyn has taught at Stanford, Rice, and Princeton, and is currently teaching film history at the American University of Paris. Death of a Tango King is his twenty-eighth novel.

Editorial Reviews

"An important book... an experiment in complex impressionistic and involutional form, striking and original in the extremes..." --Albert J. Guerard, TriQuarterly

Dalkey Archive Press

From the Publisher

A spoof of literary quarterlies, complete with articles, interviews and poetry; Charyn parodies academic life in this ``issue'' commemorating a junior-college campus security guard killed by a bus. (July)

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