The Age of Wire and String

Title: The Age of Wire and String
Author: Ben Marcus
ISBN: 9781628975710
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1679726

Publisher Description:

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds 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. Gradually, 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.