Reading Group Debates On Author Nationality and Rights

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	• An analysis of the effects of gender and race on salary for the regular-scale faculty: Report Carol A Chetkovich University of California at Berkeley, Office of the Faculty Assistant on the Status of Women, 1991 average customer review:based on 39 reviews
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Pacific Northwest Novel of the Year gets Thumps Up!

Prizes have a way of resurrecting books, and while searching for a novel for our reading group, I was recommended The Resurrectionists, a novel I'd never heard of before. The owner of the store recommended it highly and said the buzz was this was one of the true sleepers of the year, a dark, menacing, but brilliant political novel. He said if we wanted a book that would spark controversy, this was the book to read.
Given the current climate, I didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.
This is not a review as much as an endorsement of The Resurrectionists quirky brilliance. Our group was either mesmorized or shocked and angered by the portrayal of America. Like a review I saw here from somebody else, issues of nationalism flaired, and I see why this book might have been published to no fanfare. It's political sense is amazing, scary, and maybe not always on target. But what you get is a story of a society run amock, of a world dissintegrating before our eyes. This is an America of the lower class. Never has the meance been captured so well, but equally the novel seems to turn on an optimistic pivot, offering us a way out through family and children. For all the darkness this novel is at its heart a novel of light, a novel of snow.
Highly recommended by our reading group!

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Bone Chilling Social Realism

Wow. This is the darkest, most surreal novel you'll read in a long time. It had to be written by an outsider, i.e, an Irishman!
Scary for its authenticity and vision of America...The ending, tying a Nixon quote to the metaphor for the book shows the intellectual verve and power of the writing. This is a social thriller, an amalgam of Steinbeck and Elmor Leonard. He says more in this novel that maybe any American writer I've read!

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Reading Group Debates On Author Nationality and Rights

One of the most devise debates centered on the theme or intent of the author. A foreigner writing about America, and not alway in a endearing way. The question was, does Collins have a right to critique America as he does? Of course we are all entitled to our opinions, but in these heady days, the issue of nationality figured in our treatment, not just of the work, but the author's nationality.
Collins has become somewhat of a satirist of the American way of life, often using his breathtaking realism and adding a peculiar menace. What you get is an unsettling perspective that makes you rethink your own country's dreams and goals.
Amidst the debate over nationalitiy, we moved on and found within the pages a man who deeply cares about his characters and about America. There is such pathos at the end of the book, such a genuine sense of redemption, that what Collins has created is in effect, a pray to America...

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Pacific Northwest Reading Group

We chose The Resurrectionists as it was selected as Novel of the Year by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA). Their selections have informed our reading group over the past few years.
The Resurrectionists is such a radical departure from their previous selections. It seems that Collins has created a genre within a genre, coupling a gritty realism with an intellectual, satirical tone.
The issue of the main character having the thoughts he has... i.e, is he too intelligent was a main focus initially of our conversation. There were those who dismissed the voice as too authorial. However, can we dismiss the intellectual rumination of a "loser." The fierce debate centered around the prejudice that some in the group seem to have for anybody from a lower socio-economic background. I had to argue that worker's unions and people of modest station have had very intellectual ideas, and that college is not the end all of creating sophisticated, intellectual minds. I think the history of literature has been created by auto-didatics as much as learned men and women. The prejudice that a loser could see and talk so candidly and exactly about his personal and the nation's plight worked for about half of us.
This fault line did cause more conversation and more animosity between us than any previous novel. I think in retrospect, that is the core value and genius of this book. It's political invective, it's ability to move beyond the story to a charged political landscape.
Without reservation, I'm assiging 5 stars to this novel, though I suspect others in the group will make their arguments against me. So be it. The book is that kind of book. I'm really glad that the Pacific Northwest Booksellers had the foresight and insight to see the latent political power that lies within this book.
That said, it's also a great read, and its detractors, for the most part, were arguing that since the book worked so well plotwise and suspense wise, why add this other layer.
Again, I had to argue, "This is what literature does... It moves beyond story to a larger context."
Read it and decide for yourself!

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Bone Chilling Social Realism

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