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Three Goat Songs.
by Michael Brodsky
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0941423476
- ISBN 13
- 9780941423472
- Seller
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Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991. Paperback First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: there is just a hint of wear to the corner tips and the slightest toning to the white background field of the wrapper covers; else only the mildest rubbing; the binding remains square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 166pp. Trade Paperback. In a theater of coastal rocks, before an audience of goats, a man tells his story--about the impossibility of telling his story. Like the rocks, which he describes both as faces and as anal, ``hair-clogged fissures,'' storytelling, he says, consists of fronts and rears, beginnings and ends. And language avails him no devices with which to connect these ``into some single statement worthy of a whole being.'' So the man refers to himself in this trilogy of novellas through a ``cento of butt-ends,'' a patchwork of scraps from others' tales. Brodsky craftily revises the ancient Greek term for tragedy--literally ``goat song.'' He writes not of the individual's flouting of order, the theme of tragedy, but of the individual's desire for order in a unified narrative of the self. Brodsky's prose seems to proceed from the very core of his character's thinking, ``from the site of its eruption.'' Its molten flow consumes all types of language--colloquialisms, legalese, and some eminently obscure vocabulary. The result is a vigorous, eccentric style that enables Brodsky to bring a Swiftian gusto to the novel of ideas and write a challenging, at times dazzling book.
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- Bookseller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43160
- Title
- Three Goat Songs.
- Author
- Michael Brodsky
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated.
- ISBN 10
- 0941423476
- ISBN 13
- 9780941423472
- Publisher
- Four Walls Eight Windows,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1991.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction Firsts; Fiction: Collectible Pbks; English Lit; America; contemporary;
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