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 | | Jamestown: A Novel | | By: Matthew Sharpe |
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(+$1.65 Insurance) | | ALL BOOKS ARE BRAND NEW | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Pages: | 320 | | Published: | 3/15/2007 | | ISBN: | 1933368608 | | Description: | | Jamestown chronicles a group of 'settlers' (more like survivors) from the ravaged island of Manhattan, departing just as the Chrysler Building has mysteriously plummeted to the earth. This ragged band is heading down what's left of I-95 in a half-school bus, half-Millennium Falcon. Their goal is??to establish an outpost in southern Virginia, find oil, and exploit the Indians controlling the area. Based on actual accounts of the Jamestown settlement from 1607 to 1617, Jamestown features historical characters including John Smith, Pocahontas, and others enacting an imaginative re-version of life in the pioneer colony. In this retelling, Pocahontas's father Powhatan is half-Falstaff, half-Henry V, while his consigliere is a psychiatrist named Sidney Feingold. John Martin gradually loses body parts in a series of violent encounters, and John Smith is a??ruthless and pragmatic??redhead continually undermining the aristocratic leadership. Communication is by text-messaging, IMing, and, ultimately, telepathy. Punctuated by jokes, rhymes, 'rim shot' dialogue, and bloody black-comic tableaux, Jamestown is a trenchant commentary on Americas past and present that confirms Matthew Sharpe's status as a major talent in contemporary fiction.
| | Review: | | 5 out of 5
Matthew Sharpes America here is the America of Blood Meridian, a childlike, exuberant, and reflexively violent America. The writing is simultaneously coarse and refined, broad in its obsessions, but cutting and precise in its arch vocabulary. It also keeps its sense of humor all the way through. As absurdist and outlandish as this post-Apocalyptic mashup is, it remains true to the metaphors of the Jamestown settlement. The characters are well-delineated, and its easy to relate to both the "native" populations and the interlopers as they struggle with cross-cultural communication, ones responsibilities to ones society, and what its like to fall for a stranger who can scarcely conceive of your roots. John Rolfes stoned reading of a Rorschach inkblot is a tour de force, moving deftly from the scatological to the heartbreaking, all the while hewing to the novels own self-made mythos. Sharpe is conscientious about paying off his enigmas, like the red skin of the tribesman, their ability to speak English, and the nature of the war between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Hes also good about slipping in historical and cultural nuggets, both ancient and modern. My only issue was with the obvious difficulty of sustaining such an over-the-top narrative. The relentlessness did get to be a little wearing on the backside of the arc.
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| Synopsis | A brilliant and absurd riff on the Jamestown settlement story, Matthew Sharpe's novel is set in a lunatic future in which Manhattan and Brooklyn are at war. A busload of Manhattanite refuges make their way into the Virginia swamp, where they encounter sunblock wearing Indians. The classic romance between Johnny Rolfe and Pocahontas is told from multiple points of view, allowing for Sharpe to create strange pseudo-dialects that combine Internet lingo with antiquated formality. Thought the novel is inherently silly, a dark current of violence runs beneath the surface.
| | Size | | Length: | 320 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in. | | Width: | 6.0 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 18.4 oz. |
| | Industry reviews | "This is tour-de-force of black humor." (starred review)
(12/11/2006)
"Mixing slacker humor with ham-fisted vulgarity and precision-aimed barbs, [Matthew] Sharpe, an heir to John Barth and kin to David Foster Wallace and George Saunders, creates a caustic mix of old and new that proves the adage that as much as things change, they remain the same."
(03/15/2007)
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