- Paperback: 289 pages
- Publisher: ECW Press (Sep 1 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1770410333
- ISBN-13: 978-1770410336
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,086,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Schultz's latest is a satire of office life, romance novels, and afterlife narratives. She has accomplished something quite remarkable here, deftly juggling all this social commentary and a rather blandly sympathetic protagonist with a sharp command of language." —Publishers Weekly on Heaven Is Small
"I loved Joyland. Tammy Lane is the most convincing child protagonist I’ve encountered in years, a cross between Lynda Barry’s Marlys, and Judy Blume’s truth-seeking missile, Margaret." —R. M. Vaughn, National Post
"This is recommended reading, nostalgic technicolour at its sharpest. Joyland maps a believable world that depicts the grit and glitz of teenaged life in the small-town 1980s." —Matrix Magazine
"Like a Reagan-era Ice Storm, Emily Schultz’s novel Joyland captures the confusion of adolescent sexuality in a tangle of pixillated icons via the video-game generation. Set in the summer of 1984, this book will have you thinking twice about the video-game generation and the power of pining and Pac-Man." —Flare
Book Description
It’s 1984 and in the town of South Wakefield, 14-year-old Chris Lane is sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. Unfortunately, he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town’s only video arcade. As the arcade fades from his life, Chris is forced to find a new source of entertainment, and ends up getting more than he bargained for—a summer of teenage lust and violence. Joyland is about the impossibility of knowing the future, bringing the Cold War home in a novel set to the digital pulse of video games and the echoes of hair metal. Illustrations by Eisner Award winner Nate Powell head up each chapter, and this new paperback edition includes an alternate ending and an author interview that provides new insights into this powerful piece of fiction.
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