Jamestown : a novel
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Jamestown : a novel
Soft Skull Press, 2007
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内容説明
<i>Jamestown</i> 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 isto 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, <i>Jamestown</i> 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 aruthless and pragmaticredhead 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, <i>Jamestown</i> is a trenchant commentary on America's past and present that confirms Matthew Sharpe s status as a major talent in contemporary fiction."
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