War of the Worlds (Saddleback Classics)

GO War of the Worlds (Saddleback Classics)


Author: H. G. Wells
Type: eBook
Language: English
Released: 2003
Publisher: No
Page Count: 79
Format: pdf
ISBN-10: 1562545345
ISBN-13: 9781562545345
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From Publishers Weekly In this charming memoir, Andoe narrates his journey from his Tulsa childhood through redneck, hard-partying teen years to a highly successful career as a (hard-partying redneck) painter in New York City. While Andoe may not be a professional writer, his humor and offbeat artistic sensibility make up for any lack of prose-writing chops. Through discrete anecdotes that seldom run longer than two pages, Andoe assembles vivid portraits of his family and friends and of the various environments he inhabited—the working-class Tulsa neighborhoods of the 1960s, the high school and college drug culture at the end of the hippie era, and the New York art scene of the 1980s. Andoe rarely said No to drugs, and the marginal characters and dangerous encounters of the lowlife provide the book with a great deal of energy and pathos; at times his memoir reads like a more amateur version of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. Yet whenever the gonzo stories verge on tedium, Andoe modulates his tone and shows himself as the stay-at-home dad, the outdoorsman, the artist. While Andoe has an occasional tendency to settle scores (his ex-wife receives particularly brutal treatment) or trumpet his status as an outsider, for the most part his wide-eyed sense of wonder and keen observations make the everyday strange and fresh. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From After running wild for too long in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Andoe moved to New York, where he eventually won acclaim as an artist. Charged with a before-the-tornado sizzle, his paintings depict cows, horses, flat stretches of highway, stormy skies, and sulky, long-haired girls in cutoffs. Andoe's similarly brooding episodic and illustrated memoir recounts tales of poor judgment and worse luck, followed by car wrecks, epic inebriation, vicious fights, jail time, and explosive relationships with women. Although repetitive, Andoe's reminiscences smolder with down-and-out wit, peculiar detail, tense eroticism, and plain-old orneriness as he ponders his family history, early memories of drawing on the cardboard from his handsome trucker grandfather's starched shirts, his redneck culture's implicit message that "men don't draw," and his recognition that for him, no matter what, art is the only possible salvation. Andoe's edgy self-portrait connects to the mythology of the outlaw painter as exemplified by Jackson Pollock, yet it is also a blunt confession of the all-too-common artist's battle with self-destructiveness on the way to embracing art as a life-sustaining discipline. Seaman, Donna --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.