By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee by Tama Janowitz (1996, Hardcover) 
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee by Tama Janowitz (1996, Hardcover)

 
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee by Tama Janowitz (1996, Hardcover)

Publisher: Crown Pub
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0517702983
ISBN-13: 9780517702987
Product ID: EPID2137778
Description: Evengeline Slivenowicz and her five children live in a trailer park in upstate New York, where Evangeline provides for her brood by seducing men. One of these men winds up holding much of the town hostage in the library. After the FBI op...
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Synopsis
Evengeline Slivenowicz and her five children live in a trailer park in upstate New York, where Evangeline provides for her brood by seducing men. One of these men winds up holding much of the town hostage in the library. After the FBI opens fire and incurs great damage, Evangeline and her children set off for California and the movie industry. A picaresque adventure told from the point of view of Maud, Evangeline's 19-year-old daughter.

Details
Publication Date:1996-09-01

Size
Length:288 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Evangeline Slivenowicz and her five children - from five different fathers - live together in a tiny trailer by the slightly impure waters of Lake Gitches 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.

From the author of SLAVES OF NEW YORK and THE MALE CROSS-DRESSER SUPPORT GROUP, this satire in the all-too-rare genre of Evelyn Waugh's THE LOVED ONE tells 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 of BY THE SHORES OF GITCHEE GUMEE. 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. If Erskine Caldwell's characters in TOBACCO ROAD had watched TV and read an article a day from the Reader's Digest magazine, they--like the Slivenowiczes--might have had the sense, wherewithal, and know-how to get out of the pastoral, picaresque, mosquito-infested countryside and head for Los Angeles, seducing a collection of dentists, English lords, retired UPS stockholders, and policemen along the way.

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