In Kevin Wilson’s wildly creative first novel, The Family Fang, his characters, a family of two outlandish performance artists and their unwitting though pitifully and hilariously anxious-to-please children, explore a fundamental question: how far can an artist go in order to be truly artistic? Throughout the novel, Annie and Buster, also known as Child A and Child B, struggle to escape their parents’ (cleverly named . Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels The Family Fang, a New York Times bestseller and a best book of the year in Time, People, Salon, and Esquire; and Perfect Little World. His story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association as well as the Shirley Jackson Award/5(). Soon, ambition breeds conflict, bringing the Fangs to face the difficult decision about what's ultimately more important: their family or their art. Filled with Kevin Wilson's endless creativity, vibrant prose, sharp humor, and keen sense of the complex performances that unfold in the relationships of people who love one another, The Family Fang is a masterfully executed tale that is as bizarre as it is touching.
My first exposure to Kevin Wilson was The Family Fang, which tells of a very strange family, indeed. Mom and dad are performance artists, and their kids are the stars of the show. Their "pieces" usually include putting the kids into really awkward, sometimes dangerous, situations and seeing how unwitting bystanders react. Kevin Wilson is the author of the novels The Family Fang, a New York Times bestseller adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman, and Perfect Little World, as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You're Gonna Be www.doorway.ru lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons. In his novel, The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson seems to have hit upon an unexplored corner of the art www.doorway.ru aren't many contemporary performance art pieces that involve children. One exception, by the Toronto-based artists' workshop Mammalian Diving Reflex, is Haircuts by Children, in which and year-olds are given a few days' training in cutting hair and then fanned out to salons to.
'The Family Fang', by Kevin Wilson, was a troubling read for me. It is the story of the Fang Family, two parents and two children. Mr and Mrs Fang are performance artists, staging 'shocking' spectacles in public places in the name of 'art'. Their children are both pawns of their art and sometimes willing, often unwilling, participants. Publication date. August 9, Media type. Print (Hardback Paperback) Pages. ISBN. The Family Fang is a bestselling novel written by Kevin Wilson and published by Ecco in A Delightful Portrait Of The Screwball 'Family Fang' In Kevin Wilson's first novel, husband-and-wife conceptual artists stage elaborate public acts of "choreographed spontaneity" — to the.
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