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Author:	Dale Peck	Publisher:	New Pr
ISBN-10:	1565848748	Subject:	Literary Criticism
ISBN-13:	9781565848740	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	--
Publication Year:	2004	Condition:	Good
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Starting with the cover photo of Dale Peck on a New York street with an ax over his shoulder, HATCHET JOBS is a provocative book indeed. This collection of Peck's negative (to put it mildly) reviews of major writers includes assessments of David Foster Wallace, Jim Crace, Rick Moody, Terry McMillan, Julian Barnes and others, as well as a more generalized critique of the publishing business and the way books are marketed and sold. The appeal of Peck's writing is not merely his refreshingly candid and thoughtful opinions but the way he expresses them: in a brave tirade of angry, no-holds-barred invective .
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Length:	228 pages
Height:	8.0 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
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Weight:	13.1 oz.

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The acclaimed novelist takes a vigorous swipe at contemporary fiction and its progenitors. "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation."—from Hatchet Jobs According to Dale Peck, contemporary fiction is at an impasse. Its place as entertainer and educator has been usurped by television and the movies while publishing has become a feeder industry to Hollywood. Faced with such diminished status, novelists have reacted in two admirable, if misguided, ways: writing for targeted socio-cultural groups, they produce so-called "identity fiction," which employs a neo-Victorian realism and resembles anthropology more than art; or, they've pursued an ironic and self-reflexive postmodernism that can only comment on the real world with a mocking, impotent jest. Both "solutions" are reactionary and self-defeating, leading to books for the few rather than the many that isolate their readers instead of bringing them together. Hatchet Jobs methodically eviscerates such writing. Reviewing the work of Jim Crace, Rick Moody, and Colson Whitehead, Dale Peck scrutinizes the publishing climate that fosters what he deems mediocre work and the critical establishment that rewards it. Essays on gay and black women's fiction acknowledge the benefits and limitations of identity fiction, while critiques of Julian Barnes and David Foster Wallace show how twentieth-century literary movements continue to shape fiction for both good and ill. Rife with textual analysis, historical context, and insights about the power of fiction, Hatchet Jobs hacks away literature's deadwood to discover the vital heart of the contemporary novel.
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"Peck's criticism of individual writers and marketing trends is wonderfully cogent....Peck has said that he has written his last slam, this is it, we're not going to get any more 'hatchet jobs,' and that's a pity on the one hand, but great news for the emperor and all his new clothes." Publishers Weekly (05/03/2004) "In his meticulous attention to diction, his savage wit, his exact and rollicking prose, his fierce devotion to stylistic and intellectual precision, and--of course--his disdain for pseudo-intellectual flatulence, Peck is Mencken's heir...." Atlantic Monthly - Benjamin Schwarz "The surprise of the book is that its outré title (to say nothing of its cover, a photograph of the brawny, bald Peck wielding an axe) does it a serious injustice. Whatever its rhetorical excesses...and its cramped aesthetic vision, it is an extremely intelligent book, and clearly the work of a potentially noteworthy critic....The urgent need to control...coupled with a desire to seduce are, of course, the traits of a comedian as well as those of a critic, and of course the hallmark of Peck's style is a ferocious sense of humor....Given the dourness of Peck's fiction, the humor comes as a welcome surprise." New York Review of Books - Daniel Mendelsohn (07/15/2004)

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Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Dale Peck

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	1565848748
Publication Date:	2004-06
Publisher:	New Press

Pages:	240
Height:	0.7900 inches
Width:	5.5900 inches
Weight:	0.8400 pounds

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