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Cargando... The Oranging of America; Selling out; Vegetable Love; Inside Norman Mailer; the Yogurt of Vasirin Kefirovsky; Understanding Alvarado; Gas Stations; my Noon; Patty-Cake Patty-Cake. a Memoir (edición 1987)por Max Apple (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Oranging of America and Other Stories por Max Apple
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It was my fascination itself with the English language that made me a writer," Apple wrote in an essay for the New York Times Book Review. Its endless suggestiveness has carried me through many a plot, entertained me when nothing else could." Growing up in a Yiddish-speaking family, Apple writes a prose that is remarkably attuned to America's cultural and linguistic With the 1976 publication of The Oranging of America, and Other Stories, Apple established himself as one of America's most affectionate, humorous, and astute critics. Like other postmodernist writers, Apple describes famous historical figures and American pop cultural heroes mingling with his fictional characters. Howard Johnson, Norman Mailer, Fidel Castro, and J. Edgar Hoover are but some of the figures that have all turned up in Apple's fiction. One critic stated that Apple creates "the literary equivalent of a Magritte painting. Apple is currently a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In this short story collection, Max Apple take popular icons and refracts their universes so that their stories become a little bent from the ones we know. Howard Johnson, the restaurant/hotel maven, gets caught up in cryogenics. The charm of Gerald Ford must be combined with the consumption of a friend's doughnuts for him to rise to power. A "Let's Make a Deal"-type game show raises its contestants to such frenzy that their momentum carries them through even when the host is shot.
It's an approach I like (Jim Shepard does the same thing). And when Max Apple originally wrote these stories, I imagine they were cutting edge. The problem with time, however, is that cutting edge ideas become cliches and appreciation for the originator easily gets lost (even despite ourselves). The "Let's Make a Deal" story, for instance, is a satire on the hypnotic effect of television which can subvert basic human decency and values. Apple wrote that story sometime before 1974. Since that time, the theme has been rehashed in so many ways. (The movie "Network," which was judged outrageous in its time, was released in 1976.)
But let us praise the original thinkers, and remember Max Apple (to whom, I would guess, Jim Shepard also owes a debt). (