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Author of Emma Who Saved My Life and Lookaway, Lookaway
The author of the beloved novels Gospel, Emma Who Saved My Life, and Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt is a writer of rare and extraordinary talent who has yet to walk the same ground twice. With Show World, he offers a contemporary woman's story that will haunt its every reader. Samantha Flint, the figure at the book's center, flees the Midwest for Smith College to shake her past, to invent a future she can live with. There she meets the redoubtable Mimi Mohr; together and apart they move from New York City to D.C. to Los Angeles. Yet even as each new city takes them to fresh heights of power and wealth, everything Sam wants seems to elude her―and after a series of lapses, both desperate and careless, she finds her dreams have turned against her.
A work of wicked satire, acerbic humor, and unmatched imagination, Show World is Wilton Barnhardt's clear-eyed estimate of America and what we all want out of her.
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"In Wilton Barnhardt we have a new novelist who looks around him, a young novelist with a sense of history." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review on Wilton Barnhardt
"Anyone who came of age during the 1970s will thoroughly identify with and relish Wilton Barnhardt's latest, Show World....once again, he leaves his readers wanting more." --Dallas Morning News
"Barnhardt, as usual, is thinking big here....[Show World] is simply a good hard look at the world the way it is....It's a cautionary tale to be sure, a reminder to hold tight and hang on." --New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Barnhardt has a gift for satire and an eye for dialogue." --Chicago Tribune
"Fast-paced and sardonic, Show World astutely observes the inverted values of its wickedly drawn characters." --Booklsit
About the Author
Wilton Barnhardt is the author of three other novels: Gospel, Lookaway, Lookaway and Emma Who Saved My Life. A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he teaches fiction in the master of fine arts in creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he lives.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1250047889
- ISBN 13 9781250047885
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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