The Idea Of Home (American Literature Series)
by Curtis White
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In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefabricated suburb in California - where White grew up and which is the basis for this novel. From the vantage point of anoff-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned, The Idea show more Of Home is a mix of the personal and the philosophical in an energetic collage that would resemble the biographies of Nietzsche and Mark Twain if they had grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and '60s. show lessTags
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We expect autobiographical fiction to come from some sort of childhood trauma—you’re upset about your crummy life, and writing a book is cheaper than therapy—but the narrator of The Idea of Home seems upset that his childhood wasn’t traumatic enough. Sterile San Lorenzo denied him the sex and death and filth a growing boy needs, and so he’s had to go back and make it all up.
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Curtis White is the author of the novels Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. A widely acclaimed essayist, his work appears regularly in Context, The Village Voice, In These Times, and Harper's. He is the current president of the Center for Book Culture/Dalkey Archive Press
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