[bksvol-discuss] Fw: favor to ask -- notice - new novel submitted to Bookshare
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:06:09 -0800 (PST)
Cindy
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--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: favor to ask -- notice - new novel submitted to Bookshare
> To: popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 1:06 PM
> Hi Cindy,
>
> This is Rik James.
> I am not currently subscribed to the Bookshare Volunteer
> Discussion list.
> I have not been as able to devote as much time to the
> effort as in past
> times.
>
> But if you are still on the list and doing so much for all
> of us, would you
> mind posting this about a book I just submitted?
>
> Thanks.
> Rik
>
> my email is in the comments below, too, should anyone wish
> to contact me
> about it.
>
> ####
>
> Hi,
> I have not been on the discussion list for awhile, but am
> still around,
> enjoying all of our good work!
>
> I just submitted this new novel by Thomas McGuane.
> He lives in my region and was just here at our local book
> shop, doing a
> reading, and signing copies.
> So, good old Kurzweil K-1000 and me had a nice Sunday
> together.
>
> submitted to BOOKSHARE - Monday, November 8, 2010....
>
> DRIVING ON THE RIM
> by Thomas McGuane
> 320 pp. (304 pages of paginated text,
> starting at beginning of book)
>
> This book was scanned using Kurzweil K-1000 version 12.02
> in 2-page mode,
> with a ranked spelling end result of 99.6 accuracy.
> Image version was kept
> should there be any questions. The publishers say 320
> pages, but the
> pagination of numbered pages of text ends at page
> 304. all headings were
> normalized with a blank line placed above and below the
> page number at the
> top of each page. Bookshare volunteers may contact me
> at d28rik@xxxxxxx or
> at rixmix2009@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> FROM RANDOM HOUSE:
>
> From one of America’s most acclaimed literary figures
> (“an important as well
> as brilliant novelist”—The New York Times Book Review)
> a major new novel
> that hilariously takes the pulse of our times.
> The unforgettable voyager of this dark comic journey is I.
> B. “Berl”
> Pickett, M.D., the die of whose uncharmed life was probably
> cast as soon as
> his mother got the bright idea to name him after Irving
> Berlin. The boyhood
> insults to any chance of normalcy piled on apace
> thereafter: the
> traumatizing, spasmodic spectacle of Pentecostalist Sunday
> worship; the
> socially inhibitory accompaniment of his parents on their
> itinerant
> rug-shampooing business; the undue technical advancement
> and emotional
> retardation that ensued from his erotic initiation at the
> hands of his aunt.
> What would have become of this soul had he not gone to
> medical school,
> thanks to the surrogate parenting of a local physician and
> solitary bird
> hunter?
> But there is meaning to life beyond professional
> accreditation, even in the
> noblest of callings. Berl’s been on a mission to find it
> these past few
> years, though with scant equipment or basis for hope. Hard
> to say (for the
> moment anyway) whether his mission has been aided or set
> back by his having
> fallen under suspicion of negligent homicide in the death
> of his former
> lover. All the same, being ostracized by virtually all his
> colleagues at the
> clinic gives him something to chew on: the reality of
> small-town living as
> total surveillance more than any semblance of fellowship,
> even among folks
> you’ve known your whole life.
>
> Fortunately, for Berl, it doesn’t take a village. And he
> will find his
> deliverance in continuing to practice medicine one way or
> another, as well
> as in the few human connections he has made, wittingly or
> not, over the
> years. The landscape, too, will furnish a hint in what
> might yet prove, if
> not a certifiable epiphany, a semi-spiritual awakening in
> I. B. Pickett,
> M.D., the inglorious but sole hero of Thomas McGuane’s
> uproarious and
> profound exploration of the threads by which we all are
> hanging.
>
>
>
>
>
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