A German Picturesque Selected and Introduced by Ben Marcus |
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Author:
| Schwartz, Jason |
Introduction by:
| Marcus, Ben |
ISBN: | 978-1-940436-17-3 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
Publisher: | Counterpoint Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Haunting in their tone, brilliant in their images--very like fantastic presences moving across glass--the twenty-one fictions in this startling debut collection seem both inexplicably familiar and like no writing we have seen before. The opening story leads us through a kaleidoscopic series of thoughts and memories around the act of writing a letter. Another, an intricately structured document of documents--household inventories, daily calendars, property deeds, an...
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Haunting in their tone, brilliant in their images--very like fantastic presences moving across glass--the twenty-one fictions in this startling debut collection seem both inexplicably familiar and like no writing we have seen before. The opening story leads us through a kaleidoscopic series of thoughts and memories around the act of writing a letter. Another, an intricately structured document of documents--household inventories, daily calendars, property deeds, an announcement--suggests the reality overflowing these mundane markers of our lives. Yet another traces the histories of five artifacts, while at the same time slyly assembling five miniature biographical portraits.