Mcteague
by Frank Norris
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Author: Frank NorrisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-10
ISBN: 144041873X
Number of pages: 186
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Book Review: It takes you there!
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book after reading Stephen Kings book about writing; he mentions it, along with a few others.
I like Stephen King, so I bought it, loved every page, then looked for other books by Frank Norris.
I read The Octopus, and The Pit. I loved The Pit, and wish he would have lived long enough to write the third book in the trilogy, The Wolf.
The story, the characters all come to life, too bad he died at such a young age.
Summary of Mcteague
Frank Norris' graphic portrayal of the seamy side of survival in turn-of-the-century urban America remains shocking and powerful today -and its conclusion just as harrowing. McTeague's final flight into the desert is the central image of many a classic Western, and the shocking conclusion, now a cliche copied by countless other storytellers, first made its appearance in this classic novel.The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself.
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