Gardening Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Recently Viewed clear list


Q&A | May 20, 2013

Michael Marder: IMG Powell’s Q&A: Michael Marder



Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did.... Continue »
  1. $26.95 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list

spacer
Ships free on qualified orders.
$8.50
List price: $12.50
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
2 Burnside Literature- A to Z

The Age of Wire and String (American Literature)

by

The Age of Wire and String (American Literature) Cover

 

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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.

Synopsis:

"A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Ben Marcus's work has appeared in Grand Street, McSweeney's, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and the author of two books, the novel Notable American Women and the story collection The Age of Wire and String. He lives in New York City.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781564781963
Author:
Marcus, Ben
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Location:
Normal, IL :
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
General
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Large Print:
Y
Series:
American Literature Series
Series Volume:
532
Publication Date:
19980931
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
160
Dimensions:
8.72x5.34x.47 in. .44 lbs.

Other books you might like

  1. Notable American Women Used Trade Paper $8.00
  2. Among the Missing Used Trade Paper $3.88
  3. The Ice Storm
    Used Trade Paper $4.50
  4. Five Doubts Used Trade Paper $3.95
  5. The Bridegroom Used Hardcover $2.95
  6. The Bookshop Used Trade Paper $3.95

Related Subjects

Fiction and Poetry » Literature » A to Z

The Age of Wire and String (American Literature) Used Trade Paper
0 stars - 0 reviews
$8.50 In Stock
Product details 160 pages Dalkey Archive Press - English 9781564781963 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , "A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows."--Kirkus Reviews
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.