The Ruins / / Trace Farrell.
Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all...
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Farrell, Trace, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Ruins / Trace Farrell. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1998] ©1998 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, etc. -- CHAPTER ONE. In Which Our Hero's Knees—Dicey, a Hazard in the Best of Times—Have Never Been Worse . . . -- CHAPTER TWO. The Consummate Martooni -- CHAPTER THREE. Beauty, Truth, and a Call to First Principles -- CHAPTER FOUR. In Which Tom Is Keacquainted with Some Old Friends -- CHAPTER FIVE. A Real Mob Scene -- CHAPTER SIX. Tango Romantico -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Mortificatio -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ball (About Which Please See Explanatory Remark) -- CHAPTER NINE. Sacrificio -- CHAPTER TEN. Kee-kee-kkiree! An Epilogue . . . -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all fairy tales, it turns on subjection–the increasingly comic and catastrophic subjection of "our hero, Tom," a high-minded and half-starved shoeshine boy. Tom shifts for himself in a dank and vaguely apocalyptic city where "the days come and go in a flat, lurid tide, noon and midnight like sullen twins, so indifferently does light distinguish itself from darkness." Easily enticed from the artless squalor of his past into the dazzling and treacherous table politics of TheRuins, our hero soon finds himself at escalating odds with the diabolical proprietor, Jones, "an extravagant if charismatic crackpot." Tom's ill-fated efforts to reform The Ruins–finally and improbably rewarded at the glittering Fool's Ball–lead him on a devastating rise and illustrious tumble to humility, humanity, and practical grace. In the tradition of Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut, Trace Farrell delivers this highly original first novel with the arch rhetoric and insinuating charm of a seasoned carnival barker. Slyly drawing the eye to a world teeming with life, after all, no more horrid than gorgeous, The Ruins marks the arrival of a major new literary talent. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Dinners and dining Fiction. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814726853 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814728833 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814728833/original |
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