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The Age of Wire and String

The Age of Wire and String

The Age of Wire and String
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The Age of Wire and String Paperback - 1998

by Marcus, Ben

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Dalkey Archive Press, 1998-08-31. 2nd. paperback. Acceptable. 5x0x8. Binding tight.Cover clean.Minor wear to page edges and corners. Paperback. Marking and underlining throughout.
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  • Title The Age of Wire and String
  • Author Marcus, Ben
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
  • Publication date 1998-08-31
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 758043
  • ISBN 9781564781963 / 1564781968
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.72 x 5.34 x 0.47 in (22.15 x 13.56 x 1.19 cm)
  • Size 5x0x8
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98023361
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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Reader reviews for The Age of Wire and String

From the publisher

In "The Age of Wire and String," hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," 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.

From the rear cover

Here is an indispensable tool for anyone seeking an authoritative, up-to-the-minute understanding of the phenomena of everyday life and willing to accept that anything utterable can also be true. An astounding debut, The Age of Wire and String is a feat of fierce innovation and humor.
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