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Toad / Katherine Dunn ; introduction by Molly Crabapple.

Dunn, Katherine, 1945-2016 (author.). Crabapple, Molly, (writer of forward.).

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"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world.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 suplies 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." -- Jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374602321
  • ISBN: 0374602328
  • Physical Description: xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Subject: Regret > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Social isolation > Fiction.
Young adults > Fiction.
Recluses > Fiction.
Friendships.
Genre: Black humor.
Pscyhological fiction.
Campus fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 22 of 23 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 23 total copies.
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