Kevin Wilson
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.6 | 24334 Users | 3304 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Family Fang |
| ISBN: | 0061579033 (ISBN13: 9780061579035) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.wilsonkevin.com/ |
| Characters: | Caleb Fang, Camille Fang, Annie Fang, Buster Fang |
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Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art.Their children called it mischief.
Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents’ madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their parents’ strange world.
When the lives they’ve built come crashing down, brother and sister have nowhere to go but home, where they discover that Caleb and Camille are planning one last performance -– their magnum opus -– whether the kids agree to participate or not. Soon, ambition breeds conflict, bringing the Fangs to face the difficult decision about what’s ultimately more important: their family or their art.
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| Title | : | The Family Fang |
| Author | : | Kevin Wilson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | August 2011 by Ecco |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Contemporary. Art |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 24334 Users | 3304 ReviewsAssess About Books The Family Fang
Unique. It took a bit to get into it, but once I did I couldn't put it down. I had to find out what happened to the Fangs."The act is not the art. The reaction is the art"Caleb FangCaleb and Camille Fang are performance artists. Their work consists of basically "pranking" the public, causing disturbances and recording the reactions. For years and years, they've had their children, Annie and Buster (Child A and Child B), to assist in their "creations." But now, the two older Fangs are empty-nesters. Something is off in the creative process, and they are adrift. Their children are also sort of drifting through life,
I am overjoyed when a book not only meets my expectations, but exceeds them. After reading this author's short story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories, I watched and waited for a full novel. He did not let me down.Darkly comic (and sometimes just dark), the Fangs live at the border between life and art."Art, if you love it, was worth any amount of unhappiness and pain. If you had to hurt someone to achieve those ends, so be it. If the outcome was beautiful enough, strange
When I was little, my mother would play this game with me in public that she called "Go Away, Little Boy." When we were out together at a grocery store or the mall, she'd contrive to get me separated from her - say, by sending me over to the next aisle for something - then, when I'd return, she'd pretend she didn't know me. "Go away, little boy. Go find your mother." She'd try to walk - sometimes run - away from me. Now, I was in on the joke, of course, and I was infinitely delighted by this.
I finished this book quickly. Partially because I skipped several chapters (the flashbacks to the Fang family artworks didn't hold my interest and/or were too painful to read) and partially because I really enjoyed, and therefore inhaled everything else. About 2/3 of the way through I decided this book is about more than one dysfunctional art-driven family. Wilson is talking about the entire ouvre of work on selfish parents and stunted children (Let's call it Dysfunctional Family Literature or
The more time that passes, the more I dislike the book, and am flummoxed that this insensate drivel was the darling of the publishing industry when it was released. The prose was nothing more than serviceable, and the characters of Caleb and Camille were caricatures. What stands out, and kept me reading (and hoping) till the end, was the bond between Buster and Annie. I kept waiting to be moved or fastened. Instead, I experienced a penetrating boredom, and when the ludicrous, melodramatic
The Family Fang is a page turner about a complicated family of artists. Buster and Annie are quirky, creative siblings struggling to come to grips with the legacy of parents who overshadowed them their entire lives, always putting art first. Although dark and sad at times, the novel is written with hope and heart. (It was also cool to see the seeds of Nothing to See Here in Annie's film.)
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