Joseph McElroy: Cannonball

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"Move over, Pynchon--the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War." --Tom LeClair, "The Daily Beast" "Since 1966, McElroy's novels have astonished and delighted by their brilliant wit, intelligence, and style."--"Washington Post Book World""McElroy is rightly compared with Gaddis and Pynchon."--"Harper's Magazine"Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy's ninth novel, "Cannonball," takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an unearthed new testament and framed by the American competitive psyche; yet always back to a California family, a bold intimacy between brother and sister, and a story of two springboard divers and their different fates. Joseph McElroy is the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ingram Merrill foundations, as well as the NEA. He lives in New York City.

Besides McIlroy, Stockton has worked with champions such as Phil Mickelson, Yani Tseng (the number-one ranked woman in the world), and Annika Sorenstam. In "Unconscious Scoring," Stockton illustrates his principles with examples from his week-to-week sessions with these and many more of the game s top players. Including black-and-white and color photos and instructional video tags, "Unconscious Scoring" reveals the simple processes and transformative insights that every player whatever his or her handicap yearns to master." Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was Cannonball download ebook a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy--and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.


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Author: Joseph McElroy
Number of Pages: 312 pages
Published Date: 30 Jul 2013
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Publication Country: Westland, MI, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781938604218
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