{"product_id":"age-of-wire-and-string-stories","title":"Age of Wire and String: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAge of Wire and String: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBen Marcus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781564781963\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDalkey Archive Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eSecond\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"The Age of Wire and String,\" hailed by Robert Coover as \"the most audacious literary debut in decades,\" Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection--part fiction, part handbook--as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations--both comic and disturbing--in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Age of Wire and String: Stories | Ben Marcus | Paperback | 9781564781963 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks R 1781675","offer_id":49966759182488,"sku":"1781675","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81VF5-Y4FxL.jpg?v=1790024780","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/age-of-wire-and-string-stories","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}