What Spins Away is a novel about a man named Caleb who, in the process, of searching for a brother who has been missing for ten years, discovers that his inability to commit to a job or his primary relationships is both the result of his history with that older missing brother, and his own misconceptions about the meaning of that history. On a formal level, the novel explores the ability of traditional narrative structures to carry postmodern themes. The theme, in this case, is the struggle for a stable identity when there is no stable community against which or in relationship to an identity might be defined.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2182 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Irwin, Keith |
| Contributors | Martin, Lee, Rodman, Barbara, May, Brian |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Irwin, Keith, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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