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Duluth, a wickedly funny satire by Gore Vidal, is the funniest novel I have ever read. It is a satire of 1980's Reagan-era America, and of the rich in particular. However, the reader should be advised that it is not going to make sense, and one should, like I did, just give up on figuring it out, and go along for the ride that Vidal takes us on.
DULUTH. by Gore Vidal ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 23, 1983. Leaden parody, hollow satire: Vidal, who seems to have been reading his Gilbert Sorrentino, is here sneering at pop-culture and the bourgeois values it reinforces (the easiest, most familiar targets imaginable)--in a post-modernist joke-novel, with sendups of everything from romance-fiction ...
On June 15, 1920, three African-American ( Black) circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, suspects in an assault case, were taken from the jail and lynched by a White mob of thousands in Duluth, Minnesota. Rumors had circulated that six Black men had raped and robbed a nineteen-year-old White woman.
Jonathan Stride is a police lieutenant who patrols the bitter, beautiful beat of Duluth, Minnesota, on the shore of Lake Superior. His late wife Cindy calls him “a man of fire, honor, ego, and stubbornness — all good things, but sometimes not in perfect proportion.”. Stride isn’t a super-hero. He’s a flawed, determined, passionate man ...
14 dic 1997 · Duluth: a novel Vidal, Gore. 3.56. 802 ratings by Goodreads ISBN 10: 0394527380 / ISBN 13: 9780394527383. Published by Random House, New York, 1983. Used ...
Duluth. Rumpca intentionally sought out Duluth as his home. As a Duluth “transplant,” he is well-equipped to provide a hearty testimonial for the area. “Here in Duluth, we have the option to do all the things in a city environment, but also lots of remote, adventurous things,” he noted. “There’s great accessibility for either.
15 nov 2023 · You probably wouldn't guess it from the cover, but Laura Ashcroft's 1985 bodice-ripper "Heart of Fire" is set in Duluth. The novel is a historical saga spanning the years from 1912 to 1975, with ...
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