Joyce Elbrecht, Lydia Fakundiny
The Restorantionist: Text One -- A Collaborative Fiction by Jael B. Juba.
State University of New York Press, 1993. The Margins of Literature series. First printing. 0791415325 429 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new.
"This is an American novel of formed chaos playfully enacting the centrality of language in late twentieth-century art and life through the voices of two women steeped in Western traditions, one telling the story of her restoration of an ante-bellum house on the Florida Gulf Coast, the other faithfully recording it but running culturally wild in the process. In both literal and extended senses, "The Restorationist" is a mystery, with attendant bafflements, horrors, attempts to get to the bottom of things: mayhem and murder; artifices of trivialization by media, our technological doubles; arrangements of power in communities and in texts; signs and selves."