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Product Identifiers
PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-101564781321
ISBN-139781564781321
eBay Product ID (ePID)213233
Product Key Features
Book TitleReader's Block
Number of Pages194 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicPsychological, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorDavid Markson
Book SeriesAmerican Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-002323
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Finally, a prose sequel to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. This is really a work of genius." -- Ann Beattie, "Finally, a prose sequel to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. This is really a work of genius."--Ann Beattie
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIn this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind-literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities-the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth. Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials-including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists' and writers' lives, the eternal critical affronts, the startling bigotry, the countless suicides-David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Reader's ruins with such fragments, Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering., In this spellbinding, utterly unconventional fiction, an aging author who is identified only as Reader contemplates the writing of a novel. As he does, other matters insistently crowd his mind - literary and cultural anecdotes, endless quotations attributed and not, scholarly curiosities - the residue of a lifetime's reading which is apparently all he has to show for his decades on earth. Out of these unlikely yet incontestably fascinating materials - including innumerable details about the madness and calamity in many artists' and writers' lives, the eternal critical affronts, the startling bigotry, the countless suicides - David Markson has created a novel of extraordinary intellectual suggestiveness. But while shoring up Reader's ruins with such fragments, Markson has also managed to electrify his novel with an almost unbearable emotional impact. Where Reader ultimately leads us is shattering.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.A67R43 1996
