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"Like Melville's Bartleby and Gogol's Akaky Akakyevitch, Ray Maddas lives an existence that's intricately ordered and logical, and yet entirely absurd. Is it true as Ray contends that in a materialistic age only a man who cares nothing for advancement can truly advance? The "clients" who Ray tries to teach to ride the public buses in Pittsburgh have become for him a form of minimalism. As they struggle to learn a single bus name - a single letter or numeral - Ray begins to find himself in danger of losing this very minimalist struggle, and a great deal besides." "The strangeness of Ride is in its ordinariness - in its use of familiar things and locales. It's a novel that breaks or ignores every expectation and restriction of novel writing - starting with the stricture against introducing too many characters in an opening paragraph."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780887483776 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0887483771 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.16 x 0.52 x 8.04 In |
| List Price | $15.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Pages | 200 pages |
| Publisher | Carnegie-Mellon University Press |
| Published On | 2002-10-01 |
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