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Pym (2011)

by Mat Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0812981588 (ISBN13: 9780812981582)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Spiegel & Grau

review 1: When I first read the description of Pym, it didn't appeal to me at all. It sounded really self-serious. Then I heard Mat Johnson read from his upcoming book, loved it, and thought OK, I'll give this a try. The voice pulled me in from the first page, and the whole weird ride was awesome. The jacket copy doesn't even begin to hint at how wacky and speculative this book actually gets. And the combination of real world issues of race and class, and the speculative world the characters are thrown into, shows just how much a writer can accomplish when he or she dumps reality out on its head.
review 2: Chris Jaynes is a professor and literary scholar obsessed with a book by Edgar Allen Poe. When he finds that he's being denied tenure and let go from his teaching pos... moreition, he sets out to explore the story behind one of Poe's least known works, gathers a crew and sets sail for Antarctica. Along for the ride is his childhood friend Garth, a recently unemployed bus driver with an obsession for the artwork of Thomas Karvel (whose work sounds like that of Thomas Kincaid) and Little Debbie snack cakes. Their plan to sell polar ice for drinking water is upset by their discovery of a two hundred year old man, abominable snowmen who enslave them, the apparent end of the world and the private sanctuary of Thomas Karvel...much of the absurdity of the story is intended to amuse and it did, at least for me. less

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