M31 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Wright
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: An abandoned church in the rural Midwest
- Principal Characters: Dash, Dot, Dallas, Edsel, Trinity, Zoe, Maryse, Gwen, Beale
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Midwest, 1980’s, New Age movement
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Written in the teeth of the New Age, M31: A Family Romance is an incisive and disturbing satire of middle-class life-styles and family relations in contemporary America. The strange collection of personalities who inhabit an abandoned church in the middle of a cornfield is a chaotic parody of the nuclear family. The aptly named Dash and Dot, founders and prime movers of a society that believes that the family comes from and will return to a star in the Andromeda galaxy, roam across the United States in a battered Volkswagen, giving lectures and making guest appearances on local...
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