Event Factory |
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| Author:
| Gladman, Renee |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9844693-0-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the city's erosion, she is beset by this other crisis-an ontological crisis-as she struggles to...
More DescriptionA "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she quickly finds herself on the outside of every experience. Things happen to her, events transpire, but it is as if the city itself, the performance of life there, eludes her. Setting out to uncover the source of the city's erosion, she is beset by this other crisis-an ontological crisis-as she struggles to retain a sense of what is happening.