One of the strangest, most bizarre, weirdest novels ever to rise to cult classic status - a kind of x-rated fairy tale covered in soot. Delany on all Collectibles Literature & Fiction Books > Classic Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover - Paperback 12.59 - 19.85 Mass Market Paperback 12.89 - 13.49 Library Binding - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good 12.59 Good - Acceptable 15. As he tells the story of a wanderer arriving in an isolated city, Delany uses a host of experimental prose techniques to leave the reader as shaken as his characters…His innovative approach to writing meshes perfectly with the disorienting tale, establishing a masterpiece along the way. Delany’s maddening combination of, to name just three, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, South American magical realism and an American poetic rendition of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. In the case of Dhalgren, it’s reality itself that seems to have fractured and the narrative along with it. “Some dystopian novels take their cue from the breakdown of an existing social order others focus on the conflict between two incompatible worldviews and the devastation that they leave in their wake. Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Delany has produced a novel ' to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s' (Jonathan Lethem). Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Dhalgren is a literary marvel and a groundbreaking work of American magical realism. In Dhalgren,'' perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. And into this disaster zone comes a young man-a poet, lover, and adventurer-known only as the Kid. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Delany has produced a novel that rivals the best American fiction of the 1970s.īellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. In addition to being one of the genres first writers to address gay sexuality, Hugo and Nebula Award winner Samuel R. In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city.

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