Ordinary Money (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis B. Jones
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1990
- Setting: Marin County, California
- Principal Characters: Wayne Paschke, Laura Paschke, Kim Paschke, Randy Porrs, Mary Potts, Cynthia (Cindy) Potts, Bim Auctor, Eric Debono, Buddy, Fortinbras Armstrong, Dan McBride, Bob Ludex, Frank Hodges, Ralph Conlin, Eddie Mensinger, Arthur van Sichlyn, Kevin van Sichlyn, Tina
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Metafiction
- Subjects: Values, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., Reality, Fantasy, Fraud, Counterfeiting or counterfeiters
- Locales: Marin County, CA
Few first novels have been both as entertaining and as artistically controlled as Louis B. Jones’s Ordinary Money. Jones’s comic theme is the stagy California life-style, with its irresolvable mix of the real and the fake. Satire of the Californian culture can be traced at least as far as Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One (1948). Compared with Waugh’s savage fun, Jones’s satire of Californians is much kinder, gentler, and more forgiving, perhaps because he speaks as one of their own. Jones was graduated from the M.F A. program at the University of California, Irvine, and...
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