Background
Gordon, Jaimy was born on July 4, 1944 in Baltimore. Daughter of David P. and Sonia (Cohen) Gordon.
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At 21, Jane is a frankly sexual creature, footloose and imprudent. She trades her dormitory room for a deserted house on the outskirts of town which she shares with Jimmy, a wandering Adonis. Her unorthodox lifestyle takes her across numerous obstacles, but her quest for independence culminates in Los Angeles where she saves herself.
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This is the third edition of one of the finest comic novels to appear in the last half century, a book that has been compared with the very best of Flann OBrien, Angela Carter, and Witold Gombrowicz. Appearing first in 1974, Shamp of the City-Solo quickly became an underground sensation. This “fantasy” novel takes place in a dystopian parallel universe, a world set at an odd remove where the heros hunger for fame displays its mythic origin. Hughbury Shamp is the reluctant teenager who becomes apprenticed to three “masters” at the West Poolesville Depot on the Sumpsky Prospect, across the River Sump from Big Yolk, the city-solo. His education proceeds through various misadventures with the likes of impresario Sergei Shipoff, Dr. Harry Analarge, and the World-Friar Tapsvine, all the while he is being propelled toward stardom as the breakfast speaker at the murderously competitive Arslevering Ox Roast. The writing is simply extraordinarya style that seems born of Lawrence Sterne and Djuna Barnes, with sidelong glances at Samuel Becketts Watt, Marcus Aurelius, and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. With her very first novel, Jaimy Gordon managed that almost impossible feat: a novel of lasting consequence.
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book or the Year National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon’s bold and daring coming of age novel combines the teenaged angst of Catcher in the Rye with the humor and tragedy of Girl, Interrupted. Ursie Koderer knows herself to be a monster--doomed to be different from other girls--very different. When she’s discovered cutting herself at camp, she goes AWOL, and lands in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. Ursie, now known as the Bogeywoman, joins up with the other misfits on the adolescent ward. They start a bughouse rock group, steal a nitrous oxide machine. As a mental patient Ursie is a success. But then she’s implicated in the accidental burning of a friend. Locked away, the Bogeywoman meets the beautiful, mysterious Doctor Zuk, a woman psychiatrist from somewhere east of the Urals. Their affair is the main event in this gorgeous novel of love, crime, liberation, and flight to something like a new world.
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Gordon, Jaimy was born on July 4, 1944 in Baltimore. Daughter of David P. and Sonia (Cohen) Gordon.
She graduated from Antioch College in 1966, received an Master of Arts in English from Brown University in 1972, and earned a Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing in 1975, also from Brown. She currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she previously taught in the Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Philosophy program of Western Michigan University.
Writer-in-residence Rhode Island State Council Arts, Providence, 1975-1977. Fellow Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Massachusetts, 1979-1980. Director Bachelor of Fine Arts program in creative writing Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1980-1981.
Assistant professor English Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 1981-1986, associate professor, 1986-1992, professor, since 1992. Fellow Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1984—1985. Member writing committee Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, since 1999.
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