Loop's Progress

By Chuck Rosenthal

Book Overview

Restored to the author's original version, Loop's Progress is the first of The Loop Trilogy. An uproarious novel about coming-of-age that reflects the gritty reality of modern urban America. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555840019
• ISBN13: 9781555840013
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Twenty Years Later: Loop's Progress by Chuck Rosenthal

Many fine writers slip by without notice: sad, but true. Their books are published and don't sell for lack of publicity, poor timing, bad luck. Some get a second chance. Ten, twenty, fifty years down the road someone will run across one of their books, notice its value and promote it. Martha Gelhorn, Henry Green, Joseph Mitchell, Dawn Powell are recent examples. A shame they're not around to enjoy this appreciation, When...

The wrong side of the tracks in the rust-belt

I found this book in a bargain bin back in the eighties and never forgot it. In fact, I was very sorry that I let my own copy go, because it is out of print and difficult to find- or at least it used to be.If you find the disfunctional family genre of humor amusing, then this is the book for you. Think of "Married with Children" on steroids. Moreover, if you were born in a working class family, on the wrong side of the tracks,...

How did everybody miss this one?

Loop's Progress is a hilarious, thoughtful book about growing up lower middle class in a decaying city. Rosenthal's use of hyperbole and magic-realism accentuates the story and never gets tiring. He assembles some of the most unforgettable characters, and, unbelievable as their actions sometimes are, the reader always wants to find out what they'll do next. FIND THIS BOOK! Then tell all your friends! (Also the follow-up,...

Luck, Chuck, if you find this book...

Loop's Progress is the first book in Chuck Rosenthal's Loop Trilogy, which continues in Experiments with Life & Deaf, and Loop's End. It's narrated by a kid named Jarvis Loop growing up in a blue collar suburb of Erie, Pennsylvania in the 1960's.Jarvis is a congenial and observant voice, relating the idiosyncracies of his family and everyone else around him with deadpan hipster inflection, kind of like a Beat Huckleberry...