Jason Schwartz

A German Picturesque: Selected and Introduced by Ben Marcus

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Haunting in their tone, brilliant in their images--very like fantastic presences moving across glass--the twenty-one fictions in this startling debut collection seem both inexplicably familiar and like no writing we have seen before.The opening story leads us through a kaleidoscopic series of thoughts and memories around the act of writing a letter. Another, an intricately structured document of documents--household inventories, daily calendars, property deeds, an announcement--suggests the reality overflowing these mundane markers of our lives. Yet another traces the histories of five artifacts, while at the same time slyly assembling five m… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Marcus, Ben (Solist)

ISBN: 978-1-940436-17-3
EAN: 9781940436173
Produktnummer: 16802597
Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 141 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 136 g
Gewicht: 136

Über den Autor

Jason Schwartz is the author of two books of fiction, A German Picturesque and John the Posthumous. His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, New York Tyrant, The Quarterly, Story Quarterly, Unsaid, and other publications. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Florida Atlantic University where he teaches creative writing.Ben Marcus is the author of four books of fiction. His book, Leaving the Sea: Stories, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions.