Tar Baby
Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly,  "The Tar Baby" is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.
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Tar Baby
Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly,  "The Tar Baby" is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.
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Tar Baby

Tar Baby

Tar Baby

Tar Baby

Paperback(First Dalkey Archive Edition)

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Overview

Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly,  "The Tar Baby" is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781564780782
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 07/01/1995
Series: American Literature
Edition description: First Dalkey Archive Edition
Pages: 243
Product dimensions: 4.99(w) x 7.96(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
A Guggenheim Fellow, Jerome Charyn has taught at Stanford, Rice, and Princeton, and is currently teaching film history at the American University of Paris. Death of a Tango King is his twenty-eighth novel.
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