High Drama in Fabulous Toledo (Paperback)

A fast-acting antidote to reality, High Drama in Fabulous Toledo is a novel about characters on the brink of impossible chaos. When Ellen, a postmodern every-girl, daydreams her way out of monotony and into the hands of inept kidnappers, she finds she prefers captivity to her own predictable future. Life, for her, is a box to be filled. But by what or whom? Ultimately, faced with defining herself either as victim or manipulator, Ellen opts for both, igniting a chain reaction of volatile identities that levels everyone around her.

Ellen's kidnappers, a bouncer named Stef, and his gal-pal Molly, imagine themselves as a barbarian warrior and an electro-sex princess. They deliver Ellen into the hands of Jay, a cybergeek who needs a bride to fulfill his suburban dream. Against all logic, Ellen agrees to marry Jay, fearing that this may be her last chance to avoid a collision with lifelong normality.

James's postfeminist fiction is smart and accessible. Her trippy narrative packs a wallop with its wry, skin-tight prose, at once insightful and corrosive to reality. Like a postmodern Flannery O'Connor story, High Drama in Fabulous Toledo is unafraid to shake the balance of order and chaos, or toy with our most private fantasies of escape.

General

Imprint:	Fiction Collective Two
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	April 2001
Authors:	Lily James
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-57366-094-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-57366-094-9
Barcode:	9781573660945

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