Annie Salem
Annie Salem: an American tale Mac Wellman
Publisher: Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1996.
ISBN: 1557132070
DDC: 813.54
LCC: PS3573
Summary:
In this, his second novel, Mac Wellman continues his exploration
begun in his award-winning plays A Murder of Crows and The Hyacinth
Macaw - of a low-rent rural America, festering in the backwater
pollution from the urban environment. Wellman's astonishing Ohio-like
world has been tagged by some theatergoers and critics as "Macland,"
a world peopled by cantankerous, wistful, confused, and frightened
people who have lost parts of their body, their minds, and their
souls to the perpetual machine of the American dream. In Annie Salem,
young Jack Scan hangs out in the local woods near the Anger River
valley, where he witnesses strange goings-on and discovers the rare
"blue monkeys" of the semi-wilds. Meanwhile, back in town he is in
love with Annie Salem and shares some of his riverside adventures
with her. But like all true Romeos, he must first undergo his own
voyage into manhood, which he achieves through a fantastic adventure
to Mars and beyond - a voyage that, upon his return, enables him to
settle into the strange everyday world of Northern Ohio as if it were
Grovers Corners of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Language: eng
Physical Description: 223 p. ; 19 cm.
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