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Stalking America blends an interior/exterior assemblage of a young person on a train riding cross-county where everything is subtext and suspicion. Here, events are presented in a glassy contemplation of travel and transition. Stilted and strange dialogue, description, minor reality stars, historical influences, lists, architecture, movements, and mundane pop culture observations of a misinformed but well-meaning observer montage into an internal and external reverie. In America, nothing is seen or spoken directly. Conversations and thoughts wander in from around a corner-a deleted browser history of experience-ripple into the cliché of a coming of age. In this sense America is half-baked like a teenager. The protagonist obsesses over historical references to nude bathers, anarchist colonies, reality television, communes, volcanic eruptions, and songs in a playlist trying to understand a certain aspect of America through observations and false epiphanies. A vacated puzzle attempts to undo itself while each piece ploddingly re-assembles with the assurance of the train ride as elements come into proximity. To understand America, to really appreciate it, is to fundamentally misunderstand it at the deepest levels-to read into its flattening out and image as the ultimate subtext and that is where the story lies.
- Author:
- Andrew Simms
- Publisher:
- New Weather Institute/The Real Press
- Publication Date:
- Jul 15, 2024
- Number of pages:
- NA pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1917339003
- ISBN-13:
- 9781917339001