Authors: Kurt Andersen. Categories: Fiction. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs. Language: en Pages: The Turn of the Century. Authors: Christian Berg, Frank Durieux, Geert Lernout. Categories: Philosophy. Kurt Andersen is the author of the novels Turn of the Century, Heyday, and True Believers, and and, with Alec Baldwin of You Can't Spell America Without Me. His non-fiction books include Fantasyland, Reset and The Real Thing. He is also host of the Peabody Award /5. As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow - an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as 4/5(63).
n ''Turn of the Century,'' Kurt Andersen jacks you into the nerve center of the media society and pins your eyelids open until you go nearly blind with overload. He achieves this with just old-fashioned black lettering on consecutive white pages -- no shocking glossy photographs, no soundtrack, no hand-held video clips and no Web site. Kurt Andersen's first novel is a gigantic feast on "the modern" in the high lanes of today's American business. It is constantly entertaining indeed in a "Tom Wolfish" way. But you can sense a certain freshness in Andersen's book that you can't find in works like A Man In Full. Editions for Turn of the Century: (Paperback published in ), (Hardcover published in ), (Paperback published in.
Washington City Paper. Heyday quotes. “In this utterly engaging novel, the author of Turn of the Century brings 19th-century America vividly to life While this is a long book, it moves quickly, with historical detail that’s involving but never a drag on the action; the characters are beautifully drawn. After the jokes wear thin, “Turn of the Century” becomes a weary chore to wade through. Novels, I’m afraid, demand more than facile writing, snide put-downs and knowledge of today’s fads. If. Should be put in a Manhattan time capsule with the note: ‘This is how we lived at the turn of the.
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