ODD CORNERS (BOUND GALLEY, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY)
by Hjortsberg, William
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 1593760213
- ISBN 13
- 9781593760212
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus. BOUND GALLEY, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. Trade paperback from the late writer and member of what came to be known as the "Montana Gang" of writers Richard Brautigan, Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Tim Cahill, painter Russell Chatham, Actors Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Warren Oates, and musician Jimmy Buffet. Association copy inscribed and signed on title page: "For Beef, who really knows the true value of this book! Cheers! Gatz. William Hjortsberg. Livingston 7/2/04." Gregory "Beef" Torrey was a writer somewhat associated with the aforementioned "Montana Gang" who published a series of conversations with some of its unofficial "members" From Kirkus Review:
"A new way of bringing old fiction back to life: take Hjortsberg's 1971 novel Gray Matters and 1972 novella "Symbiography," package them with a couple of new stories set in the same universe and, voila!
In the early 1970s, there was dystopia as far as the eye could see, and in "Symbiography," the world inhabited by Par Sondak is only deceptively attractive. Even though Par lives in a completely automated house and dreams for his livingâbringing him a pretty penny from those willing to pay for such thingsâhis house, and the bubble cities inhabited by his clients, is surrounded by the vast wastelands of post-apocalypse America. When Par brings one of the wasteland's denizens into his sanctuary (this is a house that does much more than make the bed) in order to hijack the guest's experiences for his own dream output, the result is an unexpected mind-melding experience at least as confusing to the characters as it is to the reader. "Gray Matters" puts us even farther into the future, in a world where most of humanity lives underground in a hermetically controlled environmentâusually sans bodies. Hjortsberg tracks three of these disembodied entitiesâthey were, before becoming just heavily pampered brains, a 12-year-old plane crash survivor, an Eastern European actress of some renown, and a sculptorâas they try to break out of this virtual prison in their own ways. Hjortsberg knows his post-apocalyptic tropes inside and out, having blazed quite a few trails"
"A new way of bringing old fiction back to life: take Hjortsberg's 1971 novel Gray Matters and 1972 novella "Symbiography," package them with a couple of new stories set in the same universe and, voila!
In the early 1970s, there was dystopia as far as the eye could see, and in "Symbiography," the world inhabited by Par Sondak is only deceptively attractive. Even though Par lives in a completely automated house and dreams for his livingâbringing him a pretty penny from those willing to pay for such thingsâhis house, and the bubble cities inhabited by his clients, is surrounded by the vast wastelands of post-apocalypse America. When Par brings one of the wasteland's denizens into his sanctuary (this is a house that does much more than make the bed) in order to hijack the guest's experiences for his own dream output, the result is an unexpected mind-melding experience at least as confusing to the characters as it is to the reader. "Gray Matters" puts us even farther into the future, in a world where most of humanity lives underground in a hermetically controlled environmentâusually sans bodies. Hjortsberg tracks three of these disembodied entitiesâthey were, before becoming just heavily pampered brains, a 12-year-old plane crash survivor, an Eastern European actress of some renown, and a sculptorâas they try to break out of this virtual prison in their own ways. Hjortsberg knows his post-apocalyptic tropes inside and out, having blazed quite a few trails"
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85054
- Title
- ODD CORNERS (BOUND GALLEY, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY)
- Author
- Hjortsberg, William
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1593760213
- ISBN 13
- 9781593760212
- Publisher
- Shoemaker and Hoard
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Montana Gangm Gregory Kent Torrey, Beef Torrey
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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