Perfect Lives - (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Robert Ashley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Also includes selections from a series of talks at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in 1989"--Pref.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Raoul de Noget, an over-the-hill singer, and his younger pal Buddy ( The World s Greatest Piano Player ), find themselves in a small town in the Midwest. They become friends with the son and daughter of the local sheriff, and the four hatch a plan to do something that, if they are caught, will be seen as a crime, but if they are not, will be art: they will rob the town bank, take the money over the border into Indiana, and then return it all the next day. With this story at its center, Robert Ashley s inimitable Perfect Lives goes on to demolish every narrative convention in the book, taking in conflicting perspectives, texts, tones, narrators, and philosophies, roping in Midwestern ennui, pop songs, self-help tapes, heist movies, the lost city of Atlantis, dirty jokes, the history of American immigration, the preternatural flatness of Illinois, boogie-woogie, Giordano Bruno, and, finally, an elegy for thought itself. Perfect Lives is as much a summation of America as All in the Family or Paterson, and is every bit as essential.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>""Perfect Lives" is a seemingly endless and seamless dreamscape of the musicality of the spoken word....It floats in my head like a memorable, ever-changing dream."--Spalding Grey<br><br><P>" "Perfect Lives" is a seemingly endless and seamless dreamscape of the musicality of the spoken word....It floats in my head like a memorable, ever-changing dream."--Spalding Grey<br>
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