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The Age of Wire and String

Ben Marcus

$17.95
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9781628975710
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9781628975710
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Published by:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub date:
10/22/2024
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
152
ISBN:
9781628975710

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past.

Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection--part fiction, part handbook--as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations--both comic and disturbing--in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.