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Title	:	American Genius: A Comedy
Author	:	Lynne Tillman
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2019 by Soft Skull Press (first published September 25th 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Womens

American Genius: A Comedy Kindle Edition | Pages: 384 pages

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“I won’t always be here, and if I consider that, and regularly remind myself that I only have to be in a particular situation for an hour or two, whether I’m unhappy or not, I can manage it. I’ve been cold and miserable; I’ve been lost; deceived; I’ve been bored silly; drunk; my underpants have been wet from nervous agitation; the skin on my inner thighs has chafed to a fiery red from rubbing against wool; I’ve been robbed; fainted from shock; and I’ve been alarmed beyond words or stricken with fear hearing bitter words flare between friends in freakish eruptions of hatred in bizarre locations, since most sites are not right for confrontation, and when I have no right to speak and no involvement, except self-protection, I have become itchy, my skin a plane of heat, as if a match had been struck against it and my entire body set ablaze. But I was able to withstand it, only because I knew it would end.”


In the hypnotic, masterful American Genius, A Comedy, a former historian spending time ​in ​a residential home, mental institute, artist’s colony, or sanitarium, is spinning tales of her life and ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, textiles, pet deaths, family trauma, a lost brother, the Manson family, the Zulu alphabet, loneliness, memory, and sensitive skin—and what “sensitivity” means in our culture and society. A new edition of a contemporary classic, with an introduction by novelist Lucy Ives.

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Some tragic cases relate their stories with verve, though their accounts are no less sad than others' boring recitations, but they are compellingly told, and often these people draw others to them, no matter what story they tell.pp.41-42American Genius: A Comedy is not especially funny, and it's nowhere near as antic or typographically inventive as Tristram Shandy, despite the cover blurb from George Saunders comparing the two. It's rather mopey, in facta long, introspective work, full of run-on

This book wasn't terrible - it was just incredibly boring. It's a story told in the first person by a woman in her late 50s or early 60s who's living at some sort of scholarly retreat, and it's basically 350 pages of her non-stop stream of consciousness. The sentences are pretty dense, and I guess her riffing on Eames chairs and the Manson family wasn't very interesting to me, because I genuinely struggled to read further than ten pages at a time (sometimes could only manage a page or two)

This is what we'd get if Jane Austen were writing in 21st century America--a book that expands the possibilities of the national novel and of the female protagonist. Tillman brings into being a microcosm of American democracy, a scholarly colony functioning like Melville's Pequod, in which competing values--rationality and irrationality, generosity and selfishness, love and lust, shame and honor--compete with one another through a hilarious narrative, cycling through skin disease, chair design,

god this book is a drag. not even gonna bother getting past, like, p.50. apparently it gets "good" around p. 200, which for a 291-page novel, is ludicrous. "just let your resistance down and let it wash over you."no thanks. sometimes well-composed shit sucks and is incredibly irritating to read. too bad, because there are some good ideas present in the book. i'm just not willing to sift through piles of dung for a few grains of gold. on the plus side, reading this got me thinking more about why



"American Genius" is a beautiful book. incredibly well written, it draws you in and throws you out again, with deftly handled repetition forcing the text to hover somewhere between poetry and prose. The narrator is Helen, and Helen was the name of the "missing" character in Tillman's third novel "Cast In Doubt". In "Cast In Doubt", Helen is a young woman who appears to represent romanticism or post-modernism; while the 'main' 'character' Horace, who is searching for Helen (as a way of searching

This is what we'd get if Jane Austen were writing in 21st century America--a book that expands the possibilities of the national novel and of the female protagonist. Tillman brings into being a microcosm of American democracy, a scholarly colony functioning like Melville's Pequod, in which competing values--rationality and irrationality, generosity and selfishness, love and lust, shame and honor--compete with one another through a hilarious narrative, cycling through skin disease, chair design,