I Heart Oklahoma!

Name: I Heart Oklahoma!
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Roy Scranton
ISBN: 9781684574469

Author: Roy Scranton

Narrator: Rebecca Gibel

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 08/13/2019

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Humorous Fiction

Synopsis

Roy Scranton, controversial and critically acclaimed, brings us a formally daring road trip into the heart of present-day America.

Suzie's seen it all, but now she's looking for something she lost: a sense of the future. So when the chance comes to work with a maverick video artist on his road movie about Donald Trump's America, she's pretty sure it's a bad idea but she signs up anyway, hoping for an outside shot at starting over.

A provocative, genderqueer, shapeshifting musical romp through the brain-eating nightmare of contemporary America, I Heart Oklahoma! is a book about art, guns, cars, American landscapes, and American history. This kaleidoscopic novel moves from our bleeding-edge present to a furious Faulknerian retelling of the Charlie Starkweather killings in the 1950s, capturing in its fragmented, mesmerizing form the violence at the heart of the American dream.

About Roy Scranton

Roy Scranton has been a dishwasher, truck driver, phone psychic, caregiver, door-to-door canvasser, telemarketer, soldier, short-order cook, fry cook, and journalist. He is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, the novel War Porn, and the essay collection We're Doomed. Now What? He has been awarded a Whiting Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, among other honors, and holds a PhD in English from Princeton. He lives in Indiana, where he teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martha on September 23, 2019

Fucking chaos. I think if I had not listened to the audio I would have liked it more. It was like crazy poetry, and I wasn't sure where to look. Chaos.......more

Goodreads review by Roxanne on July 30, 2019

With influences such as Tom Waites and Walt Whitman, I knew I was in for a wild ride taking on Roy Scranton’s I HEART Oklahoma. Reminiscent of a combo akin to David Foster Wallace and George Saunders, Roy Scranton does not disappoint. If you enjoy jazz compositions, you’ll appreciate the different cy......more

Goodreads review by Andres on July 31, 2019

A glorious stream of consciousness road trip combined with a Bonnie-and-Clyde type myth retelling. Scranton is one of the wildest yet also most disciplined writers around.......more

Goodreads review by Lin on April 22, 2021

I'm obsessed with this book and I've read it twice but the last third of the book is totally context dependent. Scranton gets really into a lot of sexual violence against women (both cis and trans) and how you interpret it depends totally on who Scranton is. Like, a trans woman using the wrong prono......more

Goodreads review by Annarella on August 10, 2019

I'm speechless: this book is unpredictable, fun to read and totally unpredictable. It changes and you follow the changes and enjoy every moment. The style of writing is amazing, the characters fleshed out and quirky, the plot flaws and keeps you hook. A great reading experience. Highly recommended! Many......more