Toad /
Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets, her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people's stories, Carlotta, a troubled free spirit and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart. Colorful, crass and profound, Toad is Katherine Dunn's ode to her time as a student at Reed College, filled with the same keen observations, taboo-shirking verve and singular characters that made Geek Love a cult classic. Daring and bizarre, Toad is a brilliant precursor to the book that would make Dunn a misfit hero, even fifty-some years after it was written, it's a refreshing take on the lives of young outsiders treading the delicate lines between isolation and freedom, love and insanity, hatred and friendship. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 338 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0374602328 9780374602321 |