Blown Away (New American Fiction) [Paperback]

Ronald Sukenick (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Sun & Moon Press (November 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940650649
• ISBN-13: 978-0940650640
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #757,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging, dizzying examination of Hollywood and fiction, November 3, 1999

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This review is from: Blown Away (New American Fiction) (Paperback)

Sukenick's mind-blowing narrative experimentation is the perfect vehicle for expressing the fragmented and constructed world of Hollywood movie-making. The novel looks at how aspiring actress Cathy June becomes entangled in the L.A. scene as the bottom-feeding director Drackenstein and the avenging fortune teller Ccrab make insidious demands on her voluptuous body and what remains of her mind. Thanks to Plotz, the spurned screenwriter who can't survive his own scripts, Cathy June becomes Clover Bottom, the hottest indie starlet in the country. As Ccrab, desperate to keep Cathy June in his life, literally splits his personality to inhabit Drackenstein, so are Sukenick's readers thrown into visions and re-visions of characterization, novelization, and exploitation. An incredibly engaging and ultimately disturbing work, Blown Away accomplishes a criticism of both movie-making and fiction writing equalled only by West's Day of the Locust.