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In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus welds 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Age of Wire and String
• Author: Ben Marcus
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781564781963
• ISBN: 1564781968
• ID: 04813581
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 199 g
• Dimensions: 221 × 135 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 1998

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