IJ

[Otto]

It's indeed a good one, thanks a lot.

I really loved the title story "Girl with Curious Hair".

"The US economy was booming; yet for all their wealth and power, nothing 
- not even the massive over-prescription of antidepressants - could stop 
a growing number of Americans from becoming dysfunctionally sad.
(...)
This was the American dream gone haywire: queered by the material 
excesses and spiritual poverty of late capitalism into a surreal 
landscape caught between utopian impulse and dystopian action."
http://afr.com/articles/2003/10/16/1065917545463.html

I will take this into consideration when I start a new attempt.

Otto

jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> This article gives a pretty decent overview of the post-Pynchon and 
> DeLillo crop of American postmoderns and what they're on about, and 
> rates Wallace and his achievement with IJ (and the rest of his work) 
> fairly and sensibly.
> 
> The short story collection mentioned might be a good place to start if 
> you're having trouble getting into the longer stuff of Wallace & co.
> 
> http://afr.com/articles/2003/10/16/1065917545463.html
> 
> best
> 
> On 25/03/2006:
> 
>> Seems as if I'm giving up reading the book for the third time!
> 
> 
> 

	

	
		
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