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Fred Chappell's The Gaudy Place is perhaps the first novel to depict the society of the street people of the New South and their relationship to the middle class. For its wry portrayal of displacement and injustice this novel was awarded the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize. The street-smart teenager Arkie triggers the events of the story with his ambition to rise in economic status. He proposes business deals to the prostitute Clemmie and the successful con man Oxie, a hustler who aspires to political office. When the prank of a middle-class teenager, Linn Harper, offers Oxie the surprising opportunity to gain a foothold in respectable society, an unexpected climax reveals the interdependence of all social levels in a culture too quickly changing from a rural to an urban character. Here is a small world in which quick wits and wily survival skills are necessary and admirable, even though the race is not always to the swift. Originally published in 1973, The Gaudy Place is drily humorous, darkly ironic, fast-moving, and entertaining. Its best strength is its gallery of sharply drawn, fondly observed characters unknowingly at odds with one another.
Detalles
- Título The Gaudy Place
- Autor Fred Chappell
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition Th
- Páginas 192
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial LSU Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1994-03-01
- ISBN 9780807119341 / 0807119342
- Peso 0.54 libras (0.24 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.48 x 5.55 x 0.55 pulgadas (21.54 x 14.10 x 1.40 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, College teachers - Fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 94148979
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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