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World's End (Contemporary American Fiction)
World's End - Contemporary American Fiction Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle T. Coraghessan Boyle, author of Water Music, a hilarious reinvention of the exploration of the Niger, returns to his native New York State with this darkly comic historical drama exploring several generations of families in the Hudson River Valley. Walter Van Brunt begins the book with a catastrophic motorcycle accident that sends him b... more »ack on a historical investigation, eventually encompassing the frontier struggles of the late 1600s. Any book that opens with a three-page "list of principal characters" and includes chapters titled "The Last of the Kitchawanks," "The Dunderberg Imp," and "Hail, Arcadia!" promises a welcome tonic to the self-conscious inwardness of much contemporary fiction; World's End delivers and was rewarded with the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1988.« less
ahunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot,cheap wine, and sex and distrubed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history.