Description
| Product ID: | 9781509888467 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | Oreo |
| Authors: | Author: Fran Ross |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City. <p><b>With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of <i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i>, Marlon James.</b><br><br>Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find her father, and discover the secret of her birth.<br><br>What ensues in Fran Ross's opus is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb.<br><br>Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.<br><br><b>'<i>Oreo</i>'s satire on racial identity reads like a story for our times . . . Could <i>Oreo </i>be this year's <i>Stoner</i>? – <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>‘A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I’ve stumbled across in recent years’ – Paul Auster, author of </b><b><i>The New York Trilogy.</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-07-12 |