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In the Distance

In the Distance

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  • Diaz is originally from Argentina, was raised in Sweden, and now lives in New York, giving his writing, and perspective, and insistently cosmopolitan quality-this western is unencumbered by a narrow idea of America.
  • Håkan's profound isolation (his height, his lack of English, his foreignness) give the novel a loneliness and futility that push back against common tropes (manifest destiny, individualism) of the genre.
  • Håkan's encounters with miners, naturalists, fundamentalists, and swindlers, all are instances of some form of plunder, complicating notions of discovery that so often efface the precolonial civilizations of the United States.
  • Physical descriptions of the land, as well as Håkan's complete ignorance of the country where he finds himself, create a portrait of stirring, impassive, destructive space and scale, the likes of which were unimaginable to European settlers.
  • Fans of the best of Westerns (their darkness, their emotional punch) will gravitate to Diaz for his lack of sentiment and the awe and despair the landscape and his character's story conjures up in him.

    • Book information

    ISBN: 9781566894883
    Publisher: Coffee House Press
    Imprint: Coffee House Press
    Pub date:
    DEWEY: 813.6
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 256
    Weight: 725g
    Height: 210mm
    Width: 145mm
    Spine width: 20mm

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