Emergency Exit
258 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:01 Jan 1979
ISBN:9780914590590
People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times
This, Clarence Major's fourth novel, is about people in a town in Connecticut that has just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times. Even before publication the book gained critical attention.
This, Clarence Major's fourth novel, is about people in a town in Connecticut that has just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times. Even before publication the book gained critical attention.
My knowledge of Major’s writings—the earlier novels, short fiction and poetry—goes back several years and I have great respect for his accomplishments in the past and for this new work of fiction, which I have been able to examine in typescript. Emergency Exit sustains and carries forward the achievements of the other works and will be a very valuable addition to contemporary American literature . . . I value Emergency Exit for its explorations into both contemporary American life and culture and the rich possibilities of the art of fiction . . . the new novel advances Major’s long interest in experimentalism and the articulation of a complex vision for prose fiction . . . with an accompanying artistry and craftsmanship which will only add to his stature as one of the vital and important writers in America today.’
—Douglas Bolling
Clarence Major is a poet, novelist, short fiction writer, visual artist, essayist, lexicographer, editor, and anthologist.
