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Pagan Days
Contributor(s): Rumaker, Michael (Author)

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 ISBN: 1933132590     ISBN-13: 9781933132594
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
OUR PRICE: $23.75  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 2013005708
Physical Information: 1.43" H x 6" W x 9" L (2.06 lbs) 625 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:
Mickey seems to see and hear everything, revealing as he does, Michael Rumaker's amazing abilities as a novelist. Rumaker has a wonderful eye for realistic detail and an exceptional ear for dialogue. His ability to create realistic American characters living in 20th century America rivals any American novelist I have ever read. Pagan Days is one of the best novels I've read in a lifetime of reading. Michael Rumaker is a working-class Marcel Proust, a great novelist, inspired by memory to write this truly memorable novel. Anne Geismar Mickey's days as a "pagan" open his eyes to an almost mystical, but certainly aesthetic, view of the world where each experience, no matter how difficult or painful, offers him a vision that will carry him through life. Pagan Days enriches our literature, and reinforces that the avant-garde need not be unintelligible to communicate the complexity of being human. Rumaker's characters breathe like Rodin's figures-they are alive, real, sinewy, torn, ecstatic, and transformative. Jeffery Beam

Contributor Bio(s): Rumaker, Michael: - Michael Rumaker has written several novels and short story collections. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Black Mountain College where Duncan served as his outside thesis advisor and Columbia University. He taught at City University of New York and the New School for Social Research. He is the author of ROBERT DUNCAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (City Lights Publishers, 2013), PAGAN DAYS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2013), and the memoir, BLACK MOUNTAIN DAYS (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012).
 
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