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Joseph McElroy was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. He is the author of nine novels and has written dozens of stories, essays, and reviews. He has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ingram Merrill Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
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"Like other postmodern big booksThe Recognitions, Giles Goat-Boy, Gravity's RainbowWomen and Men embodies the American notion of manifest destiny, a continent-sized ambition to speak largely in a large land. . . . Brilliant and rigorously human, Women and Men offers a risky, brakeless drive at the far edge of what's possible in the novel." -- Albert Mobilio, Voice Literary Supplement 5-5-87
"McElroy's ambition is heroic . . . his canvas densely peopled, the animating talent is unmistakable." -- Publishers Weekly 1-9-87
"McElroy's astonishing epic . . . stretch[es] our minds, breaking through old narrative constraints as he charts uncannily new and exciting territory. . . . No serious reader will want to miss Women and Men. . . . By such dreams the world might be saved." -- Alicia Metcalf Miller, Cleveland Plain Dealer 4-5-87
"Once in a great while there is published a book that judges us, a book so rich in knowledge, imagination, and feelingin artthat the reader is ravished and humbled, changed, made thankful. Joseph McElroy's mammoth Women and Men is that kind of book, the most important novel to appear in American since Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. -- Tom LeClair, Washington Post Book World 3-22-87
"Women and Men manages to achieve in its very relentless scope, in the convolutions of its long engulfing sentences and the hypnotic repetition of its thematic elements, a kind of poetry born of contemporary obsession and paranoia. It provides us with a satirical, omnibus overview of present-day life not seen since Gravity's Rainbow, with a like intertwining of jazzy speech and elaborate prose, myth and current history, folklore and technology, pop culture and metaphysics." -- Laurence Donovan, Miami Herald 4-12-87
"McElroy's ambition is heroic . . . his canvas densely peopled, the animating talent is unmistakable." -- Publishers Weekly 1-9-87
"McElroy's astonishing epic . . . stretch[es] our minds, breaking through old narrative constraints as he charts uncannily new and exciting territory. . . . No serious reader will want to miss Women and Men. . . . By such dreams the world might be saved." -- Alicia Metcalf Miller, Cleveland Plain Dealer 4-5-87
"Once in a great while there is published a book that judges us, a book so rich in knowledge, imagination, and feelingin artthat the reader is ravished and humbled, changed, made thankful. Joseph McElroy's mammoth Women and Men is that kind of book, the most important novel to appear in American since Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. -- Tom LeClair, Washington Post Book World 3-22-87
"Women and Men manages to achieve in its very relentless scope, in the convolutions of its long engulfing sentences and the hypnotic repetition of its thematic elements, a kind of poetry born of contemporary obsession and paranoia. It provides us with a satirical, omnibus overview of present-day life not seen since Gravity's Rainbow, with a like intertwining of jazzy speech and elaborate prose, myth and current history, folklore and technology, pop culture and metaphysics." -- Laurence Donovan, Miami Herald 4-12-87
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0394503449
- ISBN 13 9780394503448
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1191
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