Because it isn't worth it! A young man in our present moves his taste from the Beach Boys to the Kinks, which makes a lot of sense given his situation in the story. Digital products purchased from this site are sold by Simon & Schuster Digital Sales Inc. a middle-aged man who works at a local Seattle bookstore.Mary Whittaker and Bobby DeSoto have constructed lives for themselves like Popsicle-stick houses: brittle, unfurnished, painstakingly assembled but made to be snapped apart or abandoned in a moment.
Maybe it's because she's not a dude that she's not considered up there.
but yes, some of the characters did sound a little bit too much like cultural theorists. and ideas (philosophical and questioning) in which her characters find themselves immersed are always of interest to me. A book handling that sounds bloated and unapproachable, but not in Spiotta’s hands, her vision is almost clinical but somehow remains human.
Victoria Savanh (Editorial Intern, Tin House Magazine): I fell hard and fast for Dana Spiotta’s Eat the Document, a novel filled with radicalism, counterculture, pop music, identity, and self-invention, spanning the 1970s through late 90s. To be enthralled by something, anything. Maybe my interest in the old 60's romantic revolutionaries flavored my initial attraction, I don't know....But before I knew it, I was drawn in--caring about the characters.
How other they become, and how infinitely necessary and justified the stalking becomes when you realize how little you know about them, how mysterious every aspect of them seems with an at a distance but close examiniation.” Eat the document, Dana Spiotta, Picador. Sometimes I even think maybe my deepest obsessions are just random manifestations of my loneliness or isolation. She writes about artists/musicians/etc. So it's really nice to read something that sort of covers some of the same contemporary existential and emotional ground, from multiple female (and male) viewpoints, written by a female. This is a fabulous novel that compares youth culture and activism now versus the late 1960's when war raged in Vietnam. The narrators alternate, but the most satisfying storVictoria Savanh (Editorial Intern, Tin House Magazine): I fell hard and fast for Dana Spiotta’s Eat the Document, a novel filled with radicalism, counterculture, pop music, identity, and self-invention, spanning the 1970s through late 90s. In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Mary Whittaker and Bobby DeSoto were the quintessential political activists -- in love with each other and their cause.
Maybe I infuse ordinary experience with a kind of sacred aura to mitigate the spiritual vapidity of my life....no, it is beautiful to be enraptured.
Spiotta is a gifted writer who is skilled at revealing truths in poetic language. In a desperate attempt to draw attention to the apparently unending horrors of the Vietnam War, Bobby Desoto and Mary Whitaker plant an explosive device in the unoccupied summer house of a munitions manufacturer.
The other major thread follows activists in Seattle in the 90s and how they shadow and mimic the movements of the 60s and 70s. Its successes and its flaws are all so widespread, it's as if I'd found the Platonic form of the Contemporary Novel. You know, those dudes. by Scribner Recommend reading in one sitting. She is despairing but understanding and her characters live and breathe and don’t exist to provide punch lines. It is fantastic. Finally had the chance to read this older novel by Spiotta. "Eat the Document" has an interesting premise -- Mary and Bobby, two sixties radicals, are forced to separate and go underground when their scheme to blow up the summer home of an executive whose company produces napalm (and/or Agent Orange) goes awry, killing an innocent victim. A book handling that sounds bloated and unapproachable, but not in Spiotta’s hands, her vision is almost clinical but somehow remains human. I bought this for a pound from Oxfam. In fact, there are probably more novels on this theme than deal with the infinitely more influential and important civil rights movement. Well, not quite, but I did read this surprising novel today.This book could be intimidating, addressing the cultural division between the 60’s and the 90’s, the failures of leftist protest in America, cultural obsession, and a critique of an overly medicated and corporatized society. The places (L.A., Seattle, etc.)
I participated in my share of protests against the Vietnam War and the tragedy of Kent State.The 1970s were a pivotal time for those in my generation, so I was drawn to "Eat the Document: A Novel." Eat The Document ( 1967) by roberto dylan. It's very difficult for me to express what it is that I find so compelling about Dana Spiotta's writing, but here's a try.
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