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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670031720

ISBN-139780670031726

eBay Product ID (ePID)2325637

Product Key Features

Book TitleDrop City

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary, Historical

Publication Year2003

GenreFiction

AuthorT.C. Boyle

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight26.5 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-066371

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsBoyle may be the most entertaining writer in America (Boston Globe) On of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation. (The New York Times) America's most imaginative contemporary novelist. (Newsweek), Boyle may be the most entertaining writer in America ( Boston Globe ) On of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation. ( The New York Times ) America's most imaginative contemporary novelist. ( Newsweek )

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisT.C. Boyle has proven himself to be a master storyteller who can do just about anything. But even his most ardent admirers may be caught off guard by his ninth novel, for Boyle has delivered something completely unexpected: a serious and richly rewarding character study that is his most accomplished and deeply satisfying work to date. It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune has decided to relocate to the last frontier-the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska-in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life, find their commune riven by tensions. As these two communities collide, their alliances shift and unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head. Drop Cityis not a satire or a nostalgic look at the sixties, though its evocation of the period is presented with a truth and clarity that no book on that era has achieved. This is a surprising book, a rich, allusive, and nonsentimental look at the ideals of a generation and their impact on today's radically transformed world. Above all, it is a novel infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which T.C. Boyle is justly famous.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.O932D76 2003