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The El Cholo Feeling Passes
Richard Janus, a young southerner working for his doctorate at UCLA during the seventies, has trouble adjusting to the changing outlook of his feminist wife, Faith Cleaver
461 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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About the author
Fredrick Barton
13 books3 followersFredrick Barton's is the award winning author of the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, Black and White on the Rocks (originally published as With Extreme Prejudice) and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize. His other books include the essay collection Rowing to Sweden: Essays on Faith, Love, Politics and Movies. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies Something in Common, Above Ground and Louisiana in Words.
Mr. Barton's fifth novel, In the Wake of the Flagship, has elicited the endorsement of author Richard Ford who said about it, "Barton has a lot of important human business on his mind in this exceptional novel: race, history, the South, hurricanes, laughter, love and much more. In the Wake of the Flagship is wonderfully inventive and addictive to read." Eminent historian Gary B. Nash has hailed In the Wake of the Flagship as "absorbing, head-turning, absolutely brilliant."
Mr. Barton holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University and did graduate work under a Danforth Fellowship, taking degrees from UCLA and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 2009 Valparaiso awarded him with an honorary doctorate in humane letters in recognition of his achievements as a writer and educator. A faculty member at the University of New Orleans for over three decades, he was the founding director of UNO's Creative Writing Workshop (CWW), its MFA program in imaginative writing, and over two different time periods served in that position for seven years. A former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Mr. Barton served as UNO Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs from 2003-2008 and in that position led the university through its exigency recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Upon returning to his department, Mr. Barton was honored with the distinguished title, University Research Professor. Today he is Writer-in-Residence in the English Department where he teaches graduate fiction writing classes in the CWW.
Mr. Barton's fifth novel, In the Wake of the Flagship, has elicited the endorsement of author Richard Ford who said about it, "Barton has a lot of important human business on his mind in this exceptional novel: race, history, the South, hurricanes, laughter, love and much more. In the Wake of the Flagship is wonderfully inventive and addictive to read." Eminent historian Gary B. Nash has hailed In the Wake of the Flagship as "absorbing, head-turning, absolutely brilliant."
Mr. Barton holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University and did graduate work under a Danforth Fellowship, taking degrees from UCLA and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 2009 Valparaiso awarded him with an honorary doctorate in humane letters in recognition of his achievements as a writer and educator. A faculty member at the University of New Orleans for over three decades, he was the founding director of UNO's Creative Writing Workshop (CWW), its MFA program in imaginative writing, and over two different time periods served in that position for seven years. A former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Mr. Barton served as UNO Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs from 2003-2008 and in that position led the university through its exigency recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Upon returning to his department, Mr. Barton was honored with the distinguished title, University Research Professor. Today he is Writer-in-Residence in the English Department where he teaches graduate fiction writing classes in the CWW.
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March 19, 2021
It was okay. The beginning is the strongest part of the novel as Barton shapes his characters. The POV switched between 1st person Janus and 3rd person, but it wasn't hard to follow. It began to drag in the middle when the main focus of the story became the continuing fights between Janus and his wife. It made me wonder why they got married in the first place because they clearly were not suited to each other. Still, this was the first book I've actually finished in a string of DNF's and I'm not sorry I read it.
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