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Loved experiencing the dreams and reality of the Trampleton people through Paul Dent's curious compassion and Lewis' welcome manipulations.
Fair warning: this review is going to be lofty and upsettingly vague but i really do not want to summarize, i want to self indulgently talk about it. I don't know of any other book like this one and this is coming from a guy who has no idea why advertising a book as "defying classification" would be a good marketing strategy. The book of bunk is a study in contrasts and flat out contradictions. It's sprawling yet very claustrophobic. Travels across great distances and alternates between multiple...
Kind of funny and tension filled novel about the federal writers project of the wpa. Takes place in oklahoma and north carolina of 1930's usa. All based on the premise that the writers project wrote travel guides to the states at the "project" and made some stuff up as a joke. See the county of bunkcombe north carolina. It was a bunch of bunk. The oklahoma travel guide was the last to be published, after jim thompson was fired as the boss for being a pinko. His/their book was burned and a rednec...
Reading this book was like its own bonfire game, jumping through it with the foolhardiest aplomb, taking the risk more riskily time and time and again, and that very thought of mine somehow encapsulates this finale of that aforementioned Mayhem journey on the Orphan Train: “Why can’t I get one single person to just tell me what in blazes happened out there?”The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long to post here.Above is one of its observations.
The events of The Book of Bunk: A Fairy Tale of the Federal Writers' Project begin in rural Oklahoma amid poverty and mournful death in 1936 when the world was mired in the Depression. They end in 1953, a few years after the end of World War II. Most of the story takes place in Trampleton, North Carolina.This is not a fantasy, despite the term "Fairy Tale" in the title. Glen Hirshberg, the author of this book, was originally known as a writer of horror fiction; the only things by him that I had
