A German Picturesque - Hardcover

Schwartz, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679443320 ISBN 13: 9780679443322

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

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Book by Schwartz Jason

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Twenty-one stories reveal a world of complexity in the moments and memories that make up ordinary lives, such as the conflicting images of a wedding seen through the eyes of various family members

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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 miniature biographical portraits.
        Point of view is important: Elements of a house, for example, are seen from the perspective of an adult and of a child. And a wedding unfolds in conflicting word snapshots taken by the bride and groom and other guests, each providing a

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679443320
• ISBN 13: 9780679443322
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 133