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Juan in America (Modern Classics) Book
Set in the year before the Wall Street crash, this book is a classic evocation of the final mania of prohibition, as seen through equally maverick British eyes. The character Eric Linklater devised to be his unreliable explorer was one capable of absorbing the enormity of the American experience without being overwhelmed by its incongruities. A blithe, bastard descendent of Byron’s Don Juan, Linklater's Juan is an antihero with a taste for the grotesque and the ridiculous, at once both dirty and deity whose response when faced either with sudden catastrophe or miraculous survival is simply to laugh. A novel in the mode of the picaresque, this is a story of erotic discovery in the sense, as Juan puts it, that “your trousers hide not only your nakedness but your kinship to the clown.”Read More
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- 0140085033
- 9780140085037
- Eric Linklater
- 26 March 1987
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 368
- New edition
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