What Ever

A Living Novel

Fiction & Literature, Drama, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Literary
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Author: Heather Woodbury ISBN: 9781429922043
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 17, 2003
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Heather Woodbury
ISBN: 9781429922043
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 17, 2003
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

"May be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses . . . wildly funny and infinitely sad."
—Fintan O'Toole, The Irish times

Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world—Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel. Taking off from her acclaimed one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury continually surprises in this novel with her ability to create new forms while always locating the unique, resonant humanity that links all the characters to one another—and to the reader.

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"May be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses . . . wildly funny and infinitely sad."
—Fintan O'Toole, The Irish times

Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave boy Skeeter; the progressive-thinking octogenarian Violet, remembering her life from her bohemian youth in prewar Paris to her jazz-clubbing in postwar Greenwich Village; and the street-smart prostitute Bushie, holding forth on the profanity of the world—Heather Woodbury has forged a unique kind of fiction that combines the immediacy of performance art with the narrative structure and subtle characterization of a traditional novel. Taking off from her acclaimed one-woman show of the same title, Woodbury continually surprises in this novel with her ability to create new forms while always locating the unique, resonant humanity that links all the characters to one another—and to the reader.

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