Jim Dodge
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| Born: | 1945 Santa Rosa, California |
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| Occupation: | novelist |
| Nationality: | United States |
| Writing period: | 1983 - present |
| Genres: | American literature |
Jim Dodge is an American novelist whose works combine themes of folklore, fantasy and liberal values, set in a timeless present before the coming of the digital age. At present he directs the Creative Writing program in the English Department at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Fup (1983)
A story about a duck, named Fup who lives on a farm with an old man who believes he is immortal due to the amount of homemade whiskey he drinks. The book ends with a strange scene where Fup is accidentally shot to pieces but reemerges from the belly a now-also-dead wild boar, and flies off into the white light.
[edit] Not Fade Away (1987)
[edit] Stone Junction (1990)
This is the story of the boy Daniel Pearse's journey from childhood to adulthood amid magic, mayhem and mysticism all guided by a mysterious organisation named AMO, the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. A series of apprenticeships teaches Daniel meditation, safecracking, poker and the art of becoming invisible.
[edit] Rain on the River (2002)
Rain on the River is a volume of selected poems and prose 1970-2001 published in 2002 by Canongate, an Edinburgh based publisher.
[edit] External links
- http://www.canongate.net/JimDodge Info on Jim Dodge and his books at his British publishers
- http://www.oriononline.org/pages/os/osevents/fireandgrit/fgdodge.html Information about Jim Dodge's early life
- http://www.writersontheedge.org/dodge.html Writing Community info on Jim Dodge
