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A Dozen Tough Jobs

Howard Waldrop

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Description:Howard Waldrop is widely known for his unusual perspective on, well, pretty much everything. Or at the very least, everything he has chosen to write about. Proceeding from a initial premise unlikely even to have occurred to anyone else, his imagination excludes no subsequent possible developments in his plots and characters. And the results are strange -- wonderful, inspired, funny, moving, sometimes disturbing, and ... strange.A Dozen Tough Jobs is true to this Waldropian mythos, just as it is no less faithful to the Greco-Roman legend of The Twelve Labors of Hercules. The ancient world of meddling Gods interfering in the affairs of mortal men in the Mediterranean region is reset in the environs of northern Mississippi, circa 1926. This clever transposition shows off the author's skills and wit as only a few others of his works have managed, and it also reveals much about the corruption and arbitrary injustice of that place and time. A tale told by a young negro orphan, it is both a celebration of life and an indictment of a reprehensible social system. The revised Labors themselves are often marvelously humorous in their adapted state, and the events of the story in which they are embedded are no less amusing and remarkable. Waldrop, having set himself a literary challenge, and having rightly perceived the full potential inherent in this half-allegorical concept, has achieved more than many less-ambitious writers ever dare attempt.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Dozen Tough Jobs. To get started finding A Dozen Tough Jobs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 135

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1989

ISBN: 0929480015

Description: Howard Waldrop is widely known for his unusual perspective on, well, pretty much everything. Or at the very least, everything he has chosen to write about. Proceeding from a initial premise unlikely even to have occurred to anyone else, his imagination excludes no subsequent possible developments in his plots and characters. And the results are strange -- wonderful, inspired, funny, moving, sometimes disturbing, and ... strange.A Dozen Tough Jobs is true to this Waldropian mythos, just as it is no less faithful to the Greco-Roman legend of The Twelve Labors of Hercules. The ancient world of meddling Gods interfering in the affairs of mortal men in the Mediterranean region is reset in the environs of northern Mississippi, circa 1926. This clever transposition shows off the author's skills and wit as only a few others of his works have managed, and it also reveals much about the corruption and arbitrary injustice of that place and time. A tale told by a young negro orphan, it is both a celebration of life and an indictment of a reprehensible social system. The revised Labors themselves are often marvelously humorous in their adapted state, and the events of the story in which they are embedded are no less amusing and remarkable. Waldrop, having set himself a literary challenge, and having rightly perceived the full potential inherent in this half-allegorical concept, has achieved more than many less-ambitious writers ever dare attempt.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Dozen Tough Jobs. To get started finding A Dozen Tough Jobs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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