The final installment of De Haven's dazzling tour of twentieth-century America, revealed through the world of the comic strips and their creators. In 1967, the Summer of Love, Roy Looby, a gifted young cartoonist, deserts his mentor and joins the drop-outs of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury. There Looby creates "The Imp Eugene," a libidinous comic book character who is a far cry from his mentor's signature figure, Derby Dugan--the cheerful icon of a more optimistic generation. Celebrated and vilified for his creation, Looby soon disappears, rumored to have lost his mind during the drug-fueled creation of a cartoon masterpiece, and it's to his long-suffering brother, Nick, to find him. A long, strange trip across a wildly changing America, Dugan Under Ground is a rich, inventive tale celebrating the mythic qualities of American popular culture.
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“De Haven is an expert milieu man, getting every last detail right.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A wild ride in appropriately nonlinear style, playing creative games with fictional form and function.” —The Boston Globe
“Delightfully inventive...[with] dialogue that snaps, crackles, and pops...A fast-moving romp through the ’60s that churns up the emotions like a Waring blender, bounces complex ideas around like Ping Pong balls, and manages to keep a dozen or more disturbing questions in the air all at the same time.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
“A wild ride in appropriately nonlinear style, playing creative games with fictional form and function.” —The Boston Globe
“Delightfully inventive...[with] dialogue that snaps, crackles, and pops...A fast-moving romp through the ’60s that churns up the emotions like a Waring blender, bounces complex ideas around like Ping Pong balls, and manages to keep a dozen or more disturbing questions in the air all at the same time.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
About the Author
Tom De Haven is a frequent contributor to Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, he also teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives in Midlothian, Virginia.
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In late September 1960, during another one of those wear-a-tie cocktail parties that somebody, some couple, in our little circle liked to host four to sevenish on Sunday afternoons, a cartoonist friend offered me this piece of advice: "Kill the kid," he said, "keep the dog." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Derby Dugan, Roy Looby, Uncle Neil, Candy Biggs, Nick Looby, Buddy Lydecker, Dan Sharkey, New York, The Last Eugene, Professor Clark, Dick Macdonald, Jersey City, Glen Tiner, San Francisco, Joel Clark, Bill Skeeter, Cora Guirl, Joe D'Emilio, Lazy Galoot, New Jersey, King Features, Jesus Christ, Walter Geebus, Mary Laudermilch, Victor Zits New!
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In late September 1960, during another one of those wear-a-tie cocktail parties that somebody, some couple, in our little circle liked to host four to sevenish on Sunday afternoons, a cartoonist friend offered me this piece of advice: "Kill the kid," he said, "keep the dog." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yellow wallet, bald kid, drawing comics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Derby Dugan, Roy Looby, Uncle Neil, Candy Biggs, Nick Looby, Buddy Lydecker, Dan Sharkey, New York, The Last Eugene, Professor Clark, Dick Macdonald, Jersey City, Glen Tiner, San Francisco, Joel Clark, Bill Skeeter, Cora Guirl, Joe D'Emilio, Lazy Galoot, New Jersey, King Features, Jesus Christ, Walter Geebus, Mary Laudermilch, Victor Zits New!
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- Jane Eyre (New Casebooks) by Heather Glen on page 203
- R. Crumb's Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb on page 75
- Dugan Under Ground: A Novel by Tom De Haven on page 285
- The Last Human (Chronicles of the King's Tramp) by Tom De Haven in Front Matter
- Walker of Worlds: Chronicles of the King's Tramp, Book 1 (Pearls of Sarah) by Tom De Haven in Front Matter
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- Dugan Under Ground: A Novel by Tom De Haven in Front Matter, and page 283
- Paging New Jersey: A Literary Guide to the Garden State by James F. Broderick on page 111
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