Description: Pacific Agony, Paperback by Benderson, Bruce, ISBN 1584350822, ISBN-13 9781584350828, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US An acidic, satiric novel in the form of a travelogue of the American northwest, complete with annotations by an outraged local. "I gazed out my window on the sea of dark clouds as my shaking seat jiggled the image into double vision; and I pictured the flat, geometrically divided western landscapes below, wondering why anyone still bothered to travel in this cookie-cutter country. What was the use of visiting identical reproductions of the same Wal-Mart or adding new encounters of equally streamlined mentality to the roster? As far as I was concerned, everything had been shorn from the same cloth, woven for years in the drab bungalows of suburban North America."—from Pacific Agony. Depressed, cynical, and subversive, East Coaster Reginald Fortiphton has been brought to Seattle by a West Coast publishing company that wants him to write a guide to the American Northwest. His job is to travel, on their dime, from Eugene, Oregon, to Vancouver, shining an admiring light on the region—which the publishers feel has been neglected by the New York publishing monopoly. Pacific Agony is his ironic attempt to fufill his assignment. To ensure that the project goes as planned, the very respectable Narcissa Whitman Applegate—notable member of the Willamette-Columbia Historical Legion and the Daughters of the Oregon Trail Historical Committee (and named after a nineteenth century missionary who was famously killed by Oregon's Nez Percé Indians)—is asked to annotate the manuscript. Her notes at the bottom of the page become progressively more outraged as the alienated Reginald's mock travel narrative skewers the region with merciless political observations—while he spirals into a depressive acidic, satirical novel hilariously eviscerates contemporary American culture at the same time that it exposes some of the darker motivations of American middle-class liberalism.
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Book Title: Pacific Agony
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Semiotexte The Limited
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Satire, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Bruce Benderson
Book Series: Semiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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