Synopses & Reviews
On September 11, 2001 Ronald Sukenick was in his Battery Park studio working on a novel about the American "Museum of Temporary Art" when he looked out his window and saw the first of the jets strike the World Trade Center. He then proceeded to reconceive the novel, now entitled Last Fall, having grasped that the "Museum of Temporary Art" was America itself, and its icon the World Trade Center. In Last Fall an older generation of artists, intellectuals, and arts professionals investigate an art theft, "something missing" from the Museum, but the transience of the collections makes it impossible to identify what's gone. Recovering the work means exposing the secret of the Museum's creation, a conspiracy of the "why" chromosome transforming all the suspects into an American family.
Review
Praise for Ronald Sukenick:
"A rolling energy, pouring information and serious ideas on this information with the abundance of a good working shower head." --New York Times Book Review
Review
"What characterizes Sukenick's fiction is its comedy, its sexual exuberance, its innovations in structure and characterization, and the accuracy of its depiction of the cultural context." --
Review of Contemporary LiteratureReview
"Sukenick's prose style is fast, nervy, exciting, like Mailer and even Kerouac at their best."
--Southern Humanities Review
Synopsis
In Last Fall an older generation of artists, intellectuals, and arts professionals investigate an art theft, "something missing" from the Museum, but the transience of the collections makes it impossible to identify what's gone. Recovering the work means exposing the secret of the Museum's creation, a conspiracy of the "why" chromosome transforming all the suspects into an American family.
About the Author
Praise for Ronald Sukenick:
"A rolling energy, pouring information and serious ideas on this information with the abundance of a good working shower head." --New York Times Book Review
"What characterizes Sukenick's fiction is its comedy, its sexual exuberance, its innovations in structure and characterization, and the accuracy of its depiction of the cultural context." --Review of Contemporary Literature
"Sukenick's prose style is fast, nervy, exciting, like Mailer and even Kerouac at their best."
--Southern Humanities Review