SERIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Yvette in America, by John Goulet
OUT OF PRINT
About the Book:
Yvette Pleven, the protagonist of John Goulet's stunning new novel, is a kind of whacked-out contemporary Tocqueville in search of a new world who finds only paradox in her search for happiness and freedom. The six connected episodes in Yvette in America carry Yvette across the United States, from Boston to Colorado and California and finally to Milwaukee, in the often cold heart of her adopted country.
By turns outrageous, funny, poignant, and sad, Yvette in America charts the spiritual journey of thousands who came to America expecting the promised land and found instead hustlers, con men, and worse, eager to make profits from their dreams. Yet in the end Yvette not only makes peace but triumphs in a small way, which may be the only way one ever triumphs at all.
With Yvette, John Goulet has created an absolute original, an ironic contemporary pioneer who, whether speaking her native French or fractured English, gives voice to our deepest hopes and fears.
About the Author:
John Goulet, author of Yvette in America, grew up in Colorado and was educated at St. John’s University, San Francisco State, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After serving in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, he returned to take a position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is currently professor of English. The author of the highly praised novel, Oh’s Profit, Goulet’s short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Folio, Kansas Quarterly, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. Currently he lives in Milwaukee with his wife, Susan.
Yvette in America, by John Goulet
OUT OF PRINT
About the Book:
Yvette Pleven, the protagonist of John Goulet's stunning new novel, is a kind of whacked-out contemporary Tocqueville in search of a new world who finds only paradox in her search for happiness and freedom. The six connected episodes in Yvette in America carry Yvette across the United States, from Boston to Colorado and California and finally to Milwaukee, in the often cold heart of her adopted country.
By turns outrageous, funny, poignant, and sad, Yvette in America charts the spiritual journey of thousands who came to America expecting the promised land and found instead hustlers, con men, and worse, eager to make profits from their dreams. Yet in the end Yvette not only makes peace but triumphs in a small way, which may be the only way one ever triumphs at all.
With Yvette, John Goulet has created an absolute original, an ironic contemporary pioneer who, whether speaking her native French or fractured English, gives voice to our deepest hopes and fears.
About the Author:
John Goulet, author of Yvette in America, grew up in Colorado and was educated at St. John’s University, San Francisco State, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After serving in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, he returned to take a position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is currently professor of English. The author of the highly praised novel, Oh’s Profit, Goulet’s short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Folio, Kansas Quarterly, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. Currently he lives in Milwaukee with his wife, Susan.