Jack Houghteling '10's debut book GOODMAN receives high praise
Jack Houghteling '10's debut book Goodman was longlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction, which recognizes novels that are daring, original, and innovative. For a synopsis of the book, click READ MORE.
Goodman
A younger person, itinerant and over-connected and uncertain, develops a friendship with an older offbeat family friend after he's summoned to go live with him and serve as a caretaker to a little-disclosed illness. A story of two disparate paths crossing (one of the twentieth and the other the twenty-first century), Goodman is a meditation on our transitory culture; on whether language - thick as a brush but full of Whitmanian possibility - can effectively and heartfully narrate our ever-complicating modern reality.
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A younger person, itinerant and over-connected and uncertain, develops a friendship with an older offbeat family friend after he's summoned to go live with him and serve as a caretaker to a little-disclosed illness. A story of two disparate paths crossing (one of the twentieth and the other the twenty-first century), Goodman is a meditation on our transitory culture; on whether language - thick as a brush but full of Whitmanian possibility - can effectively and heartfully narrate our ever-complicating modern reality.
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