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Lift Your Right Arm - Softcover

Cherches, Peter

 
9781938349027: Lift Your Right Arm
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1938349024 ISBN 13: 9781938349027
Verlag: Pelekinesis, 2013

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Fiction. The five sequences of LIFT YOUR RIGHT ARM are minimalist novels of sorts—thought- provoking, mostly deadpan prose that is often darkly humorous. From the stark relationship studies of "Bagatelles" and "Dirty Windows" to the wry observations of "Mr. Deadman" and "A Certain Clarence," the stars of these pieces are Peter Cherches' unique takes on Everyman and Everywoman—dead or alive—navigating a world in which very little is what it seems.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Called "one of the innovators of the short short story" by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in over 100 magazines, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist, Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer, was released in 2016. Pelekinesis has previously released three collections of his short fiction, most recently Whistler's Mother's Son. Of his 2013 book Lift Your Right Arm, Billy Collins suggested, "To Gödel, Escher and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches." Cherches is a native of Brooklyn, New York.

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“Packed into Lift Your Right Arm are conundrums, Abbott-and-Costello dialogues, nonsense narratives and other playful—sometimes hilarious, sometimes subversive—assaults on logic. To Gödel, Escher, and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches.” - Billy Collins “Peter Cherches is one of the stingiest writers going—stingy with words, that is. He won't use ten words if he can get away with five, and he won't write a novel if he can convey its pith in a page. This book, then, is the equivalent of a whole shelf of books. Read slowly, it can last you for years.” - Luc Sante “I swear, Peter Cherches is a bloody Boy Scout, blazing trail after trial after Tenderfoot trooper Kafka in this new manual of terrifying trifles, Lift Your Right Arm. He over qualifies for the merit badge of knotting knotty knots. His hitched fictions—bent and twisted, worsted and loopy—articulate the inarticulate. They tie you up; they tie you off; they tie-dye you. These skeins of embroidered language fray, frayed and fraying till the bitter bitterest end.” - Michael Martone “One of the innovators of the short short story, Cherches (Condensed Book) returns with a collection whose pieces linger in the void somewhere between poetry and prose. Consisting of five sequences of loosely connected minimalist stories—few of which go on for longer than a page—these “novellas”, though distinct, keep returning to certain overarching themes: the reality of death, the difficulty of expressing subjective perspective, and the failures of language.” - Publishers Weekly

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Packed into Lift Your Right Arm are conundrums, Abbott-and-Costello dialogues, nonsense narratives and other playful sometimes hilarious, sometimes subversive assaults on logic. To Gödel, Escher, and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches. - Billy Collins Peter Cherches is one of the stingiest writers going stingy with words, that is. He won't use ten words if he can get away with five, and he won't write a novel if he can convey its pith in a page. This book, then, is the equivalent of a whole shelf of books. Read slowly, it can last you for years. - Luc Sante I swear, Peter Cherches is a bloody Boy Scout, blazing trail after trial after Tenderfoot trooper Kafka in this new manual of terrifying trifles, Lift Your Right Arm. He over qualifies for the merit badge of knotting knotty knots. His hitched fictions bent and twisted, worsted and loopy articulate the inarticulate. They tie you up; they tie you off; they tie-dye you. These skeins of embroidered language fray, frayed and fraying till the bitter bitterest end. - Michael Martone One of the innovators of the short short story, Cherches (Condensed Book) returns with a collection whose pieces linger in the void somewhere between poetry and prose. Consisting of five sequences of loosely connected minimalist stories few of which go on for longer than a page these novellas , though distinct, keep returning to certain overarching themes: the reality of death, the difficulty of expressing subjective perspective, and the failures of language. - Publishers Weekly

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Verlag
Pelekinesis
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1938349024
ISBN 13 
9781938349027
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
160
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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