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Becoming a paraplegic after an accident, former telephone-wire repairman Frank Eastman finds himself in a decrepid motel near Disneyland, trying to come to terms with his life and a host of eccentric neighbors
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Jay Gummerman is the author of the short story collection We Find Ourselves in Moontown (1990). He lives in San Clemente, California.
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Gummerman's first novel is a brief, elliptical, mordantly funny traipse through the fringes of Disneyland. A paraplegic ironically named Eastman seeks a fresh start. Yet he is not really seeking. Too enervated spiritually and physically for the usual effort of living, he instead ekes out an adventure as only a bystander strapped in a wheelchair could, submitting to transport from home in St. Louis, Missouri, to the zany vagaries of entertainment in L.A., where he lived before an accident crippled him. Holed up in a hard-luck motel near the Disney theme park, Eastman encounters and re-encounters a trail of oddball, sometimes threatening Altmanesque characters; events overtake him; he seems to be the loser; and yet ultimately he escapes, catching a bus to an unknown, nominally promising, new destination. An Alice-in-Wonderland aura shields the story from too many doubts or questions about the line possibly separating fantasy from real life. This is satire that reinvents its object, mauling the misery of American down-and-outers, "able" and disabled, with an appealing delicacy. The writer's cynical jabs at moral mobility will be tonic for anyone who's had it with the cliche{‚}s of recovery. But the book is also guardedly optimistic, bounding along on the strength of its intelligence. Gummerman is like a perverse "facilitator" : he forces us to be critical of our own culture. Molly McQuade
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0679439919
- ISBN 13 9780679439912
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages211
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