Camino Road

by Renée Green

Renée Green’s long-unavailable homage to (and parody of) the historically male-dominated genre of the road novel Originally published in 1994, Camino Road is the debut novel of acclaimed New York–based artist and writer Renée Green (born 1959). Set between the late 1970s and early 1980s, and combining the genres of road novel, countercultural memoir, travel journal, epistolary novel and screenplay, it is the record of the mind of a young woman coming of age as an artist, traveling in Mexico and exploring the bohemian milieu of 1980s New York.

Serving as both homage to and parody of the historically male-dominated genre of the road novel, Camino Road interrogates the tropes of the form through the unusual perspective of a young woman. The relationship of language to self-formation is demonstrated by the protagonist Lyn’s attempts to learn Spanish. Accordingly, the book is divided into an English half and a Spanish half.

Published as an artist’s book for the Reina Sofía group exhibition The Raw and the Uncooked , the book includes an appendix with photographs and ephemera from Madrid’s 1980s movida punk movement.

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Ros]

En mi cabeza se me ha unido con Mai-Thu Perret y su take on The Crystal Frontier y me ha abierto muchas conexiones en la cabeza. Si odiaste El Camino de Kerouac tanto como yo, Green me ha sanado un poco de mis años de estar loque por Salinger. Es un libro que se sale del formato libro

[Adriana · Rating 3 out of 5]

most shocking thing was the boyfriend admitting he was the problem