Corker

by Wendy Lill

Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth-century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Opening with the extended family's awkward attendance at the funeral of Serena, aging flower child of the sixties, the symbolic conflicts build quickly. Serena's sister Merit, the hard-driving, social-program-budget-slashing female political aparatchik and her husband Leonard, a lion of free enterprise, are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889223947
• ISBN13: 9780889223943
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 5.5"