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- Linda Perdido: A Novel
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
Linda Perdido, the story of the antisocial Linda Perdido told by her well-behaved sister Qua, is a memoir like no other.
Set in a vast and unknown region in the Midwest, Mac Wellman’s Linda Perdido chronicles the lives of two sisters: Linda and Qua Perdido. Linda is bad, acting out every antisocial impulse she has and then some; Qua is good but comes to hate her sister, though she chooses to write a memoir about her, thus Linda Perdido.
Their lives are complicated by many figures, among them the Traveler, a lonely man who follows the migration patterns of a strange bird, the Perdido Macaw; the Counter-Terrorist, who gets his facts wrong and cannot decipher the ominous chatter; a FedEx delivery man, Donn Morocco, who loses his mind after his truck is stolen by the rampaging Linda. These and others meet and complicate each other’s lives, often ruinously, culminating at what will become Ground Zero on the day before the attacks.
Table of Contents
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- One. A book begins:
- pp. 1-8
- Seventeen.
- pp. 107-114
- Twenty-One.
- pp. 133-138
- Twenty-Two.
- pp. 139-148
- Twenty-Three.
- pp. 149-150
- Twenty-Four.
- pp. 151-158
- Twenty-Five.
- pp. 159-162
- Twenty-Six.
- pp. 163-170
- Twenty-Seven.
- pp. 171-176
- Twenty-Eight.
- pp. 177-182
- Twenty-Nine.
- pp. 183-186
- Thirty-One.
- pp. 195-202
- Thirty-One (& a Half).
- pp. 203-205
- Thirty-Two.
- pp. 205-214
- Thirty-Three.
- pp. 215-218
- Thirty-Four.
- pp. 219-224
Additional Information
ISBN
9781573668415
Related ISBN(s)
9781573661737
MARC Record
OCLC
851316173
Pages
237
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No