Dhalgren
Book - 2001
"Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young man-poet, love, and adventurer known only as the Kid. -- Back cover.
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Publisher:
New York : Vintage Books, 2001
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed
ISBN:
9780375706684
0375706682
0375706682
Branch Call Number:
SF DELANY
Characteristics:
xiii, 801 pages ; 21 cm
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Journeying to the central United States city of Bellona, where all have fled save madmen and criminals, a poet and adventurer known only as the Kid wonders at the strange portents that appear in the city's cloud-covered sky.
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Imagine if James Joyce had set “Ulysses” in a post-apocalyptic ur-city of the future rather than in Dublin, and you’ll kind of have a sense of what this is like.
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Add a CommentWords defy me. The gorgeous psyche! The red of the deep sea reflecting off that; an orchid growing through the red,, -- this book.