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Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, ?"The Tar Baby"?is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.

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"An important book... an experiment in complex impressionistic and involutional form, striking and original in the extremes..." -- Albert J. Guerard, TriQuarterly

Tar Baby

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    A Paperback / softback by Jerome Charyn, Charyn Jerome

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/08/1995
      ISBN13: 9781564780782, 978-1564780782
      ISBN10: 1564780783

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, ?"The Tar Baby"?is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas.

      Trade Review
      "An important book... an experiment in complex impressionistic and involutional form, striking and original in the extremes..." -- Albert J. Guerard, TriQuarterly

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