| The Red Album Contributor(s): Collis, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1927040655 ISBN-13: 9781927040652 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2013414725 |
| Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
| Physical Information: 248 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bola?o, The Red Album is a work of fiction that questions historical authenticity and authority. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an edited and footnoted narrative of dubious origins. In the second part, a section of "documents" (including essays, memoirs, a short play and a filmography) shed light on the first narrative. Familiar characters are revealed to be writers, and the writer and editors of the initial narrative are revealed to be characters. As the ghosts of social revolutions of the past are lifted from the soil in Catalonia, and a new revolution unfolds in South America, the number of mysteriously missing author/characters grows almost as fast as new author/ characters emerge and complicate and scatter the threads of the story. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collis, Stephen: - Stephen Collis is an award winning poet, activist, and professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University. His poetry books include ANARCHIVE (2005), The Commons (2008), On the Material (2010, awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), and the forthcoming To the Barricades (2013). He has also written two books of criticism, including Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (2007). His collection of essays on the Occupy movement, Dispatches from the Occupation (2012), comes out of his activist experiences and is a philosophical meditation on activist tactics, social movements, and change. A Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University in 2011/12, Collis has read and lectured across Canada, the United States, and Europe. THE RED ALBUM (2013) is his first novel. |