Loudermilk by Lucy Ives

Loudermilk by Lucy Ives

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Hilarious . . . A riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely funny portrait of an egomaniac and his nebbish best friend. --The Washington Post

It's the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midwest, Troy Augustus Loudermilk (fair-haired, statuesque, charismatic) and his companion Harry Rego (definitely none of those things) step out of a silver Land Cruiser and onto the campus of The Seminars, America's most prestigious creative writing program, to which Loudermilk has recently been accepted for his excellence in poetry.

Loudermilk, however, has never written a poem in his life.

Wickedly entertaining, beguiling, layered, and sly, Loudermilk is a social novel for our time: a comedy of errors that deftly examines class, gender, and inheritance, and subverts our pieties about literature, authorship, art making, and the institutions that sustain them.

Lucy Ives is the author of five collections of poetry and prose, including ORANGE ROSES (Ahsahta, 2013), an essay and poetry collection, and NINETIES (Little A, 2015). Impossible Visions of the World, her first full-length novel, will be published by Penguin Publishing in 2017. Ives is the editor of Triple Canopy and teaches at the Pratt Institute in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781593763909
ISBN 10	1593763905
Title	Loudermilk
Author	Lucy Ives
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soft Skull Press
Year published	2019-05-07
Number of pages	304
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.