Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><italic>Treadmill</italic> is a novel about the tension between personal accountability and obedience to context. Set in a Chicago that is both Gangland fantasy and mundane reality, <italic>Treadmill</italic> chronicles Gretchen Penfield's attempts to lose weight, and the unusual, ramifications of her journey of self-improvement on several local crime families. The novel is darkly comic and centers around a hazy morality which each character tries to bring into focus, with varying degrees of success, ultimately questioning the binary of altruism and self-interest.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.F.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English Language and Literatures
- Year
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Wentworth, Robert Lowell
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Elise Blackwell
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 2011, Robert Lowell Wentworth
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1108
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-2109