Speckled Vanities, by Marc Estrin
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Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is “downtown" to three institutions: — Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in their air-conditioned trailers, — High Desert State Prison, Nevada’s largest, newest, and most modern, and — the Sekhmet Temple of Goddess Spirituality, a women’s community in the desert. All three are concerned with violence against women. This remarkable combination is the setting for some very confused relations among four protagonists, in a plot modeled on Cervantes and Goethe. They are all musicians, and music maps their gnarly way throughout.
Speckled Vanities, by Marc Estrin- Amazon Sales Rank: #3558064 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .74" w x 5.00" l, .72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
About the Author Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and political activist. Speckled Vanities was conceived in a skull wearing the first and second hats, but a Google map plunked the third hat on it right quick.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Meditation on Love By R. Jacobs A wistfully serious meditation on love told through the prism of chamber music performed by the lovers themselves. Estrin’s always unique take on this modern life informs this pleasant, wonderfully composed novel. The characters include a prison reformer, a wannabe General Curtis LeMay (the real-life General Buck Turgidson of Dr. Strangelove fame), a drone warrior and a couple beautiful women–each with their own mostly uncertain agendas when they cross paths in the Nevada desert. This is a relatively brief novel that is simultaneously erudite and accessible.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Misbehavior of drones, chromosomes and prison inmates By Ian Stokes Classical music is the theme that pervades this account of the four principal actors in Estrin’s latest novel. However, the self-discipline of their musical quartet is enveloping four differing and sometimes undisciplined individual lives. Meanwhile, in the background there is the drone-hum created by the anonymous Reaper pilots, and the rustling of suppressed anarchy among the inmates of the federal prison. Things do get out of control – misbehavior of drones, chromosomes and the audience for the quartet’s misguided attempt at musical therapy for the prisoners. Estrin challenges the reader to reflect uneasily on whether the controlled discipline of society’s cultural norms really can constrain the loose cannons that dwell, latent or not, within us.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An amazing performance by an author who’s already published By Amazon Customer Estrin’s Speckled Vanities is marvelous reading, companionable, cinematically rapid and confident, a reader’s bargain at $1.99 for an e-book. It opens on the west coast, then revolves around a state-of-the-art prison in the high desert of Nevada on the one hand, and a feminist-goddess commune on the other, and thereby triangulates and refracts as one single cultural chord the deadly and chaotic, semi-somber, semi-sober America of the 1970s, the Viet Nam hiccup and hangover era, the psychedelic party petering into the tepid, criminal and glitzy, farcical repetitions of itself, viewed through the emotional and intellectual prisms of the passionately high cultural, classical music couple, the Wardens, one awkwardly assistant warden at the prison, so presumably Warden Warden, the other drawn to the intangible, presumably humid, and weltering energies that suffuse her fellow-female commune.It's exhilarating to read, weaving and lining language authentic to each of these three distinct sites to their deliberate or involuntary repudiation of the grueling zombie mediocrity of everything they are not, which is the middle-brow, comfort culture of the ever-expanding flock of bewildered sheep who look up a darkening sky, inexorably poisoned sky and bleat, hoping they’ll get fed. An amazing performance by an author who’s already published, evidently independently, around ten prior novels.
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