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Author : Ben Marcus
Release : 1998
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Age of Wire and String by : Ben Marcus
Download or read book The Age of Wire and String written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews
Author : Ben Marcus
Release : 2013-05-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 39X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Age of Wire and String by : Ben Marcus
Download or read book The Age of Wire and String written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds 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.
Author : Ben Marcus
Release : 2002-03-19
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Notable American Women by : Ben Marcus
Download or read book Notable American Women written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2002-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String. With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its own reality. On a farm in Ohio, American women led by Jane Dark practice all means of behavior modification in an attempt to attain complete stillness and silence. Witnessing (and subjected to) their cultish actions is one Ben Marcus, whose father, Michael Marcus, may be buried in the back yard, and whose mother, Jane Marcus, enthusiastically condones the use of her son for (generally unsuccessful) breeding purposes, among other things. Inventing his own uses for language, the author Ben Marcus has written a harrowing, hilarious, strangely moving, altogether engrossing work of fiction that will be read and argued over for years to come.
Author : Ben Marcus
Release : 2012-01-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Flame Alphabet by : Ben Marcus
Download or read book The Flame Alphabet written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2012-01-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.
Author : Ben Marcus
Release : 2014-01-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Leaving the Sea by : Ben Marcus
Download or read book Leaving the Sea written by Ben Marcus. This book was released on 2014-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where strange illnesses strike at random and where people disappear without a trace. Ben Marcus has created a labyrinth populated by disturbed, weary men; from the frustrated creative writing teacher to the advocate of self-inhumation; from Paul, whose return home leads him further into his isolation, or Mather, whose child is sick, to an unnamed narrator who spends his lonely evenings calculating the probabilities of his mother's imminent demise. Dark, funny and utterly unique, Leaving the Sea showcases a writer at the height of his powers.
