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The Age of Wire and String Paperback - 2024

by Ben Marcus

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From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title The Age of Wire and String
  • Author Ben Marcus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
  • Publication date 2024-10-22
  • ISBN 9781628975710 / 1628975717
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Life
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ben Marcus was born in Chicago in 1967. The son of a mathematician and a literary scholar, he was raised in the Midwest, Austin, London, Aarhus, and New York. He holds degrees from New York University and Brown University, and has taught at schools in Texas, Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island. In addition to The Age of Wire and String, he is also the author of Notable American Women, Leaving the Sea, New American Stories, and Notes from the Fog.

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