In the wake of a deteriorating career and marriage, Steven Armour joins a group of Civil War reenactors and throws himself into their weekend exercises with zeal, eventually becoming obsessed with his captain's wife before he begins losing his identify in his embrace of his Civil War role. 30,000 first printing.
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Review:
"Dyja pulls the past straight into the present with this novel, which manages to be both hilarious and disturbing" (Erica Wagner The Times)
"Thomas Dyja spins a fascinating tale of a man who tries to solve his problems in the present by immersing himself in the past, with eerie and almost heartbreaking success" (Margot Livesey)
"Dyja has created a modern achetype in Steven Armour, a man in desperate need of some authenticity in his life who, in the end, gets more authenticity than he bargained for" (Jonathan Dee)
"Wondrous, wry and moving... the novel is a joy... as surprising as it is poignant" (Washington Post)
Book Description:
'Chucking it all in - all the pointless anxiety, all the buzzing lite crap with which we surround ourselves - is an urge everyone feels, or ought to. In Meet John Trow, Thomas Dyja uses that impulse to drive a novel that's part satire, part domestic drama, part post-modern ghost story. And the whole thing works like a dream' - Kurt Andersen
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0670030996
- ISBN 13 9780670030996
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages355
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