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INTERSTATEby Dixon, Stephen
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Book DescriptionNY: Holt. rm, fine, dj w/ minor scratches. 1995. 1st ed. boards. Book summaryStephen Dixon's emotional book explores the terrifying experience of a child's loss. Through use of multiple voices and points of view, the author recreates the senseless violence that turns a parent's worst nightmare into reality. Finalist for the National Book Award in 1995.Media Reviews"The eight variations of this catastrophe give Interstate its special depth. The killing itself is powerful, but the world surrounding it is what makes Dixon's novel something more than a dramatized headline in the newspaper." -- Jerome Klinkowitz, Chicago Tribune Books "...Nathan's voice...is as distinct and original and American as Mark Twain's....Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plainspoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy." -- George Stade, New York Times Book Review "...the book's real subject is not the century's end, our savage streets, or gun control, but the relentlessly bewildered mind of Nathan Frey--its peregrinations, its crippling weaknesses, its tiny triumphs, and, finally, its heartbreaking likeness to our own." -- Jordan Ellenberg, Boston Book Review First LineHe's in the car with the two kids, driving on the Interstate when a car pulls up on his side and stays even with his for a while and he looks at it and the guy next to the driver of what's a minivan signals him to roll down his window. Publisher NotesIn the author's first novel since Frog, a nominee for the National Book Award, a father mentally replays, in eight variations, the shooting of his daughters on an interstate highway. Other Recommended Books
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