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Q&A

August 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

$18.95 – $27.95

by M. Allen Cunningham

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Kenyon Saint Claire is the son of a distinguished literary family, a keeper and teacher of the written word, but his America is a land of electronic images, big pharma, high-tech distraction, and endless advertising. False impressions are the stock in trade, and big metrics matter, especially onscreeen. That’s where Kenyon finds himself, isolated behind glass, portraying a televised version of himself on a scripted game show, avoiding the devouring eye of the camera that feeds his image to fifteen million viewers. The year is 1956.

Inspired by true events, groundbreaking in its evocation of an agitated, media-soaked half century, M. Allen Cunningham’s Q&A urgently reimagines the misunderstood 1950s quiz show scandals in light of our own time, as a moment of cultural reckoning whose reverberations we feel all around us today: in reality television, TV politics, the triumph of incoherence, and the pandemic problem of how to be real in a world of screen-induced self-deception.

Praise for M. Allen Cunningham

“Warning: Never use the word genius extravagantly, except when referring to M. Allen Cunningham’s Q&A.”

—Robert Antoni, author of As Flies to Whatless Boys and Cut Guavas 

“A fully formed, timeless American writer.”

—Square Books, Oxford MS

“One of the bravest and most talented novelists writing today.”

—Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child, Pulitzer Prize Finalist

“A master storyteller.”

—Gina Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

“Cunningham’s prose is perfect—he writes dialogue and sentences that beg to be read aloud.”

—Gayle Shanks, Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe AZ

“Cunningham’s writing is beautiful and fluid. Mesmerizing.”

—The Oregonian 

“A writer both original and well aware of the writers who have come before him. Bold and ambitious.”

—Peter Turchi, author of Maps of the Imagination

“Cunningham’s facility with the language of image and sound casts a spell not unlike Isabel Allende.”

—The Clayton Pioneer

“Cunningham is a remarkable writer. His prose is delicate, touching, and lyrical.”

—Powells Books, Portland OR

“One of the most gifted fiction writers working today.”

—Amy Mason Doan, author of The Summer List

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Weight 0.85 lbs
Dimensions 6 × 0.89 × 9 in
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