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Synopsis
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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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.
Review
“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
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 031242101X
- ISBN 13 9780312421014
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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