Description
As the title implies, Dementia Americana is about the craziness of America. In what he describes as "the most personal writing I have ever done," Keith Maillard meditates upon the implications for private life of the two most bizarre wars of our time: the Gulf War and the Vietnam War. Working within traditional closed forms, but stretching them to their limits, Maillard recreates the effect of the past and the persistence of dream in the public arena.
About the author
Keith Maillard is the author of fourteen novels, including Two Strand River, Gloria, The Clarinet Polka, Difficulty at the Beginning, and most recently Twin Studies. He has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Keith was born and raised in West Virginia, and now lives in Vancouver. He has been a musician, a contributor for CBC Radio, a freelance photographer, and a journalist. He teaches at the University of British Columbia.
Other titles by
In the Defense of Liberty
The Bridge
Writing Across the Binary
Fatherless
A Memoir
Twin Studies
The Clarinet Polka
A Novel
Morgantown
Difficulty at the Beginning Book 2
Running
Difficulty at the Beginning Book 1
Looking Good
Difficulty at the Beginning Book 4
Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes
Difficulty at the Beginning Book 3