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At the turn of the eighteenth century, John Morehead Tripoli is marooned on the unspoiled Caribbean island of St. Renard. There, he lives for an idyllic year in a community of Carawak Indians.
Three hundred years later, the Carawak are gone, St. Renard is carpeted with banana plantations and sugarcane fields, and Tripoli himself is remembered only through his grandson, founder of New Hampshire's Tripoli College, which maintains a branch campus on the island. The college, never prosperous, has been forced to enter into a coercive financial relationship with snack food giant Big Anna® Brands, the same corporation that controls most of the land on St. Renard. Big Anna® deposes the college president, uses students and faculty as test subjects for a "dietary and mood additive" called Malpraxalin®, and hijacks the St. Renard campus for a "field studies" program.
At the heart of this twisted satire are two souls in transition. Bill Brees is a grandfatherly dean, "undercover" as a Tripoli freshman, and bemused by how things have changed since his undergrad days. Maggie Bell is an African-American student, startled into the realization that nothing really changes at all. When these unlikely friends both elect to spend their spring semesters in the Caribbean, they will see a side of Big Anna® even uglier than they could have imagined.
The Ghost Apple develops through a varied and colorful collection of documents, including tourism pamphlets, blog posts, slave narratives, and personal correspondence. Slowly these texts reveal the extent of Tripoli's current crisis, and highlight those historical crises in the midst of which the college--and the nation--were founded.
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Insightful and hilarious . . . A definite new voice to watch. (Bustle)
An improbable laugh riot. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
A droll comedy of modern manners, incisive without being angry, this satire within satire within satire will delight the right audience. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
An insanely fun mixture of pseudo-historical letters, blog posts, emails, newsletters, advertisements, and even course listings . . . [A] raucous adventure. (Booklist)
Had Donald Barthelme written Absalom, Absalom!, this is it. (Padgett Powell)
This is a damn good novel. It's patient, weird, fun and, most of all, smart. It had me from the first line. (Percival Everett, author of I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER and PERCIVAL EVERETT BY VIRGIL RUSSELL)
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An improbable laugh riot. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
A droll comedy of modern manners, incisive without being angry, this satire within satire within satire will delight the right audience. (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
An insanely fun mixture of pseudo-historical letters, blog posts, emails, newsletters, advertisements, and even course listings . . . [A] raucous adventure. (Booklist)
Had Donald Barthelme written Absalom, Absalom!, this is it. (Padgett Powell)
This is a damn good novel. It's patient, weird, fun and, most of all, smart. It had me from the first line. (Percival Everett, author of I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER and PERCIVAL EVERETT BY VIRGIL RUSSELL)
"[A] mordant and mischievous satire . . . Thier renders a deranged world that we recognize as our own." -The Boston Globe
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- EditoreBloomsbury USA
- Data di pubblicazione2017
- ISBN 10 1620405288
- ISBN 13 9781620405284
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
- Valutazione libreria
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