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Head in Flames is an astonishing collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, and quotation shaped into a series of narraticules told by three alternating voices, each inhabiting a different font and aesthetic / political / existential space. The first belongs to Vincent van Gogh on the day he shot himself in Auverssur-Oise in July 1890. The second to Theo van Gogh (Vincent's brother's great grandson) on the day he was assassinated in Amsterdam in November 2004. The third to Mohammed Bouyeri, Theo's murderer, outraged by the filmmaker's collaboration with controversial politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a 10-minute experimental short critiquing Muslim subjugation and abuse of women. The aggregate: a restless, haunting exploration of art's purpose, religion's increasingly dominant role as engine of politics and passion, the complexities of foreignness and assimilation, and the limits of tolerance.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Head in Flames
• Author: Lance Olsen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9780998403748
• ISBN: 0998403741
• ID: 16186483
• Publisher: Widow and Orphan House
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 141 × 215 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. April 2017

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