Peru (American Literature Series)
““Peruis an achievement, one that is profoundly American and yet representative of profound and widespread nostalgias. Here is emergent Lish, with a voice like no other.”” (Harold Bloom)““InPeru, our fascination springs from the terror of compulsive memory and from the novelist’s struggle to turn it into art. It is a struggle that Gordon Lish wins brilliantly.”” (Don DeLillo)““Peruis simply the name Lish gives to the endlessly prolonged moment during which we human beings keep on staggering around, bleeding from the wounds we inflict on each other, understanding nothing of what is happening to us, thinking only of how to deliver the next blow.”” (New Republic)