Dec 19, 2009

M31 | M31

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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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M31 | M31

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