Baldwin's debut novella follows the misadventures of Jacob, a young man from Brooklyn who struggles to find his centre of gravity. What emerges is an anti-bildungsroman - a work that is reminiscent of James Thurber with clipped pieces of narrative interspersed with bouncy epistolary bits and off-the-cuff meditations on junk food and crackpot friends and family. Part Tao Lin, part SJ Perelman, The Wilshire Sun is a book full of dynamic, slyly original language and off-kilter imagery.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Baldwin's characters search for fame in the shape-shifting landscape of Hollywood. He has a voice that follows the mirage even after it disappears. The Wilshire Sun is a surreal, giddily original debut that plumbs the myth of Los Angeles."
- James Frey
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Höhe: 193 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-933527-46-8 (9781933527468)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Born in 1984, Joshua Baldwin grew up in New York City, graduated from the University of Chicago, and now lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of an illustrated chapbook, Poems and Fake Book Reviews, which included a poem that became a semifinalist for the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize. Baldwin's poetry and criticism have also appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.
