New york times bestseller named one of the ten best books of the year by time, people, salon, and esquire the family fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tourdeforce examination of what it means to make art and survive your family. The best single word description would be brilliant. Aug 04, 2011 this is the archsounding premise of kevin wilsons novel the family fang, which in less adroit hands might have been a string of twee, deadpan moments and not much more. Kevin wilson takes performance art, which is meant to disrupt the everyday, and applies it to that most hidebound of institutions, the american middleclass family. After reading kevin wilson s the family fang, a light, funny story about an artistic family who perceive what art is in a much different and mischievous manner than a more conservative view many of us have, i wonder if the book deserves all this appreciation listed above.
The family fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tourdeforce examination of what it means to make art and survive your family. Two siblings from a family of performance artists have to learn to live in the real world. In his superbly imagined debut novel, kevin wilson asks what life would be like for the children of two famous 1970s80s performance. The family fang by kevin wilson the new york times. The book shows how her film career goes into a tailspin when annie begins to realize how readily she allows herself to be taken advantage of.
The family fang by kevin wilson in chm, djvu, txt download ebook. Kevin wilson is the author of one novel, the family fang ecco, 2011, and one collection of stories, tunneling to the center of the earth harper perennial, 2009, which won a 2010 alex award and the 2009 shirley jackson award for singleauthor collection. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or. People, top 10 books of 2011 in his debut novel, kevin wilson expertly navigates between pathos and black comedy while negotiating a smart debate about the human cost of sacrificing all for ones art. Download the family fang by kevin wilson pdf novel free. He has received fellowships from the macdowell colony, yaddo, and the khn center for the arts, and teaches fiction writing at the university of the south, where he also helps run the sewanee writers conference. A novel kevin wilson the family fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tourdeforce examination of what it means to make art and survive your. Kevin wilsons previous books include the family fang, perfect little world and baby, youre gonna be mine. Apr 12, 2012 kevin wilson comes up with increasingly weird and horrifying performance art pieces for the fangs to enact, starting with the merely silly a pretended jelly bean heist from a crowded mall and escalating to the nearabusive.
Kevin wilson author kevin wilson is the author of the collection tunneling to the center of the earth, which received the 2009 shirley jackson award. For outre performance artists, caleb and camille fang, everything in life is secondary to art, including their. The fang family are outlandish performance artists, caleb and camille, their daughter annie, and son buster. The family fang is the fiction, thriller, literature, redemption, humor and paranormal novel which. There arent many contemporary performance art pieces that involve children. Caleb and camille are more like public disturbances.
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For author kevin wilson, writing offers a brief reprieve. New york times bestseller named one of the ten best books of the year by time, people, salon, and esquire the family fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tourdeforce. People, top 10 books of 2011 in his debut novel, kevin wilson expertly navigates between pathos and black comedy while negotiating a smart debate. The wall street journal called it inventive and hilarious film adaptation.
Wilson is an assistant professor of english at sewanee. This is the archsounding premise of kevin wilsons novel the family fang, which in less adroit hands might have been a string of twee, deadpan moments and not much more. Kevin wilson is the author of one novel, the family fang ecco, 2011, and one collection of stories, tunneling to the center of the earth harper perennial, 2009, which won a 2010 alex award and the. Kevin wilson s previous books include the family fang, perfect little world and baby.
Performance artists caleb and camille fang are committed to making great art. Kevin wilson books list of books by author kevin wilson. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the family fang. But when an artists work is about subverting normality, raising welladjusted children can be difficult. Kevin wilson, author of the family fang the new york times. The family fang is fun, and nothing other than exactly what wilson wants it to be.
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