Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies: A Novel
A historical novel set in the Great Depression that follows comic-strip culture, ambition, and corruption.
Work Information
A historical novel set in the Great Depression that follows comic-strip culture, ambition, and corruption.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co
- Published
- 1996-06-01
- Pages
- 290 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780805044454
- ISBN-10
- 0805044450
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Narrated by a fast-talking pulp fiction author, a darkly comic novel set amid New York City's tabloid press of the 1930s follows the frantic search for a replacement for the roguish creator of America's favorite comic strip.
Tom De Haven teaches creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Reviews
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Fun and fast read
This is the second in a series of three, each of which can be enjoyed independent of the others -- no commitment to a series. After reading this one you will likely want to find the others. The first dealt with there. beginning of comic strips and the last with underground comics. This deals with the "golden age" with a cartoonist and strip similar to Orphan Annie and Harold Gray. The narrator is a pulp writer who scripts the series. Very good evocation of the place and time. Very engaging read.