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Jokerman 8

Richard Melo

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English
Soft Skull Press
31 August 2004
"A west coast posse of forest radicals based out of San Francisco State University, Jokerman engages in a wild array of pranks -- they sink whaling ships at harbor in Iceland, skydive into the winter forest of British Columbia on a bend to save a pack of wolves from a government-sponsored slaughter, and stage a Tree-In in a southern Oregon old-growth forest where it is believed the first pine trees evolved. Jokerman spikes trees, jerryrigs tractors, spoils traps, and conserves enough energy to laugh and drink beer at the end of the day. In numerous subplots encompassing both present and past, a young husband flees San Francisco for Portland during the Draft, another young husband sets himself on fire in front of what he thinks is Robert MacNamara's office in the Pentagon, and the Yippies succeed in levitating the Pentagon, inspiring the Jokerman Eight to respond by building a pyramid next to the Pentagon. Written in a polyphonous prose where every tendency is contrapuntal to another--rollicking yet meditative, whirlwind yet lax, lush yet stark, ghostly yet grounded, complex yet accessible--the novel can best be summed up by its final (and shortest) sentence- ""Live happy."""
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Imprint:   Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   460g
ISBN:   9781932360349
ISBN 10:   1932360344
Pages:   280
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Richard Melo is an author and book reviewer. He is the author of the novels Happy Talk and Jokerman 8.

Reviews for Jokerman 8

"""My first thought when I started reading Jokerman 8 was, 'Damn it, why didn't I write this book?' Then I set to work trying to figure out how to plagiarize it. Finally, I had sit back & give in to its crazy brilliance - which is all its own and unstealable. Written with love for all of us babies blinking in the silent home movies of the 60s and 70s, Jokerman 8 reminds us of who we were meant to be and how we intended to live in this wack-ass world."" - Ariel Gore, author of Atlas of the Human Heart ""Like the Dylan songbook its title invokes, Jokerman 8 is freewheeling and deeply felt, moving and cymbal-crashing funny. It is also that rarity: an angry, politically-minded work of exuberant high spirits. A great first novel."" - Andrew Lewis Conn, author of P: The Novel"""


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