Blown Away (New American Fiction Series)

By Ronald Sukenick

Book Overview

Blown Away is Sukenick's fifth novel and was originally published in 1986. This new edition of the novel is the definitive version of the text and represents volume 05 of our Ronald Sukenick Edition.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940650630
• ISBN13: 9780940650633
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Sun & Moon Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

An engaging, dizzying examination of Hollywood and fiction

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.