Trance
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino, published by Jonathan Cape in 2005, is a novel that explores the complex dynamics of identity and ideology through the lens of a historical event. Set in 1974, the story follows a group of urban guerrillas known as the Symbionese Liberation Army, who abduct a newspaper heiress. The heiress, adopting the name ‘Tania,’ raises questions about her choices and motivations as she aligns herself with her captors, leading to a dramatic narrative that intertwines elements of fiction with real-life events.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of characters and themes as the novel delves into Tania’s transformation and the chaotic world of her captors. The narrative unfolds against a backdrop of societal upheaval, featuring a cast of scam artists, visionaries, and militants that reflect the era’s quest for self-renewal. Trance offers an underground tour of America during a tumultuous time, inviting readers to engage with the complexities of loyalty, belief, and the search for meaning amidst chaos. With 516 pages, this edition presents a detailed exploration of these themes in the English language.
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In 1974, a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla name ‘Tania’ and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Why else would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiance, her comfortable home? Why would she adopt the SLA’s cri de guerre, ‘Death to the Fascist Insect That Preys Upon the Life of the People’? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades – the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda – into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tania’s sentimental education. Trance, Christopher Sorrentino’s triumphant second novel, leaps from the pages of history into satire and myth. It takes the reader on an underground tour across a beleaguered America in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class militants who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renewal. performance, placing Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists.
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