| Calendar of Regrets First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Olsen, Lance (Author) |
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ISBN: 1573661570 ISBN-13: 9781573661577 Publisher: F2c OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009041860 |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 6.32" W x 8.92" (1.47 lbs) 456 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Calendar of Regrets is a wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death. The poisoning of the painter Hieronymus Bosch; anchorman Dan Rather's mysterious mugging on Park Avenue as he strolls home alone one October evening; a series of postcard meditations on the idea of travel from a young American journalist visiting Burma; a husband-and-wife team of fundamentalist Christian suicide bombers; the myth of Iphigenia from Agamemnon's daughter's point of view--these and other stories form a mosaic, connected through a pattern of musical motifs, transposed scenes, and recurring characters. It is a narrative about narrativity itself, the human obsession with telling ourselves and our worlds over and over again in an attempt to stabilize a truth that, as Nabokov once said, should only exist within quotation marks. View a trailer for the book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZvaLi91Blk |