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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Pr
Publication date
October 1, 1996
Pages
193
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781564781321
ISBN-10
1564781321
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock
Original list price
$14.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The narrator, Reader, reflects on a lifetime of reading
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind - literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities - the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth. Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials - including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists' and writers' lives, the eternal critical affronts, the startling bigotry, the countless suicides - David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Reader's ruins with such fragments, Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering.
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from Dalkey Archive Pr (October 1, 1996)
9781564781321 | details & prices | 193 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $14.95
About: The narrator, Reader, reflects on a lifetime of reading
About: The narrator, Reader, reflects on a lifetime of reading
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