Enough by Eric Karl Anderson
An avant-garde look at society’s questionable ability to separate fact from fiction.

Enough
a Novel
by Eric Karl Anderson
153 pages
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ISBN  0-972268804
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Lucy Summerson grew up in 1950s suburban America. Three decades later, she looks back at her life and simultaneously writes a novel about her most intense relationship: her affair and subsequent marriage to an illusive stage actor named Paul. As these two accounts interweave, and the distinction between fact and fiction becomes increasingly confused, the novel calls into question the extent to which Lucy has chosen to fabricate her life. Through her recollections and reasoning, Lucy endeavors to understand the meaning of her identity as an American woman. Enough examines the transformation of a nation’s culture through an era of rapid change.


Praise for Enough by Joyce Carol Oates:

“ENOUGH is tautly, obsessively, mesmerizingly narrated by a unique American voice—a ‘Lucy’ who has refused her role in middle-class Caucasian American culture, yet is unable to be content with an identity elsewhere. When, at the novel’s end, she declares that she is ‘irretrievably lost’ in her understanding of herself, we feel that this insight is profound and harrowing and utterly convincing. It’s as if Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am,’ were acknowledged as the prelude to nightmare, and not to ‘illumination.’ Eric Anderson has thoroughly immersed himself in his character’s voice and it will be fascinating to see what this inventive young novelist will write next.”?Joyce Carol Oates

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 I found it (Enough) a sensitive and compelling read, a delicate, tough work where Anderson has, in the perfect icy decency of his prose, found the right vehicle for both an analytical understanding and a haunting vulnerability.
                                                                       ?Ali Smith
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About the Author

Eric Karl Anderson’s focus was creative writing at Goddard College in Vermont, where he wrote Enough. Before attending Goddard College, he lived in Boston, where he drew inspiration to write this novel. Eric has recently published work in the literary reviews Blithe House Quarterly, Tatlin’s Tower and riverbabble. He will also be guest-editing an issue of Blithe with Stuart Henderson for 2004. Originally from Maine, Eric now lives in London, where he recently completed a master’s degree in Studies in Fiction at the University of East Anglia.


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