By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee by Tama Janowitz
A compelling story of the sex lives of people and invertebrates at the end of America's twentieth century. Staggering across the polluted swamp of what was once Longfellow's forest primeval comes the happy, singing, all-American Slivenowicz family. Evangeline Slivenowicz and her five children - from five different fathers - live together in a tiny trailer by the slightly impure waters of Lake Gitchee Gumee. At nineteen, Maud, the novel's heroine, is obsessed with sex, power, money and how to get every single thing she wants in a way that - although lacking any morality - never involves much violence or four-letter words. On an intellectual diet of one Reader's Digest article a day, the Slivenowicz clan abandon their mosquito-infested pastoral idyll for Los Angeles, seducing a collection of dentists, English lords, retired UPS stockholders and policemen along the way.
Janowitz, described by Gordon Burn as a member of the American literary bratpack alongside Brett Easton Ellis, is the author of Slaves of New York, A Cannibal in Manhattan, American Dad and The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group. She lives in New York.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780330354066 |
| ISBN 10 | 033035406X |
| Title | By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee |
| Author | Tama Janowitz |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 1998-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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