Reader's Block Paperback - 2014
by David Markson
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- Title Reader's Block
- Author David Markson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 194
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
- Date 2014
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1564781321I4N00
- ISBN 9781564781321 / 1564781321
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.33 x 5.34 x 0.6 in (21.16 x 13.56 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Novelists - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96002323
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind - literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities - the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth. Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials - including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists' and writers' lives, the eternal critical affronts, the startling bigotry, the countless suicides - David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Reader's ruins with such fragments, Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering.
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/1996, Page 1346
- Library Journal, 10/15/1996, Page 91
- New York Times, 01/12/1997, Page 21
- Publishers Weekly, 08/12/1996, Page 79