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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea Hardcover - 2007

by Marche, Stephen

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A virtuoso performance from an emerging new literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country.

In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania-its national symbols, political movements, folk heroes, a group of writers dubbed "fictioneers," a national airline called Sanjair, and a rich literary history.

Sanjania is an island nation whose English-speaking citizens draw upon the English, American, Australian, and Canadian literary traditions. This brilliant story is an anthology, taking the reader from the rough and tumble pamphlets of 1870s Sanjania to the burgeoning Sanjanian nationalistic awareness in the 1930s literary journal, The Real Story, to the extraordinary longing of the writings of the Sanjanian Diaspora. These works develop into a Rashomon-like story, introducing us to illustrious Sanjanian figures such as the repentant prostitute Pigeon Blackhat and the magically talented couple Caesar and Endurance.

The result is a vibrant evocation of a country-from the birth pangs of its first settlers and their hardy vernacular to its revolutionary years and all the way to the present-all told in Stephen Marche's innovative and accomplished writing.

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  • Title Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
  • Author Marche, Stephen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Hardcover, New York
  • Date 2007-08-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-1594489416
  • ISBN 9781594489419 / 1594489416
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.37 x 5.55 x 0.93 in (21.26 x 14.10 x 2.36 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007008664
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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