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Dhalgren - by Samuel R Delany (Paperback)

Dhalgren - by  Samuel R Delany (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s (Jonathan Lethem).</b> <p/> Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there ... 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, lover, and adventurer--known only as the Kid. <p/>Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, <i>Dhalgren</i> is a literary marvel and groundbreaking work of American magical realism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>"A Joycean tour de force of a novel, <b>Dhalgren</b>...stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass's <b>Omensetter's Luck </b>and Nabokov's <b>Pale Fire</b>) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature."-<i>The Libertarian Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>After his seventh novel, <i>Empire Star </i>(1966), <b>Samuel R. Delany</b> began publishing short fiction professionally with "The Star Pit." It appeared in <i>Worlds of Tomorrow</i> and was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, "Aye, and Gomorrah" and "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones," won Nebula Awards as the best science fiction short stories, respectively, of 1967 and 1969. <i>Aye, and Gomorrah: And Other Stories </i>contains all the significant short science fiction and fantasy works that Delany published between 1965 and 1988, excepting only those tales in his Return to NevèrYon series. A native New Yorker, Delany teaches English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. In July of 2002, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

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