Pieces Of Payne
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Graywolf Press,U.S.
Published:1st Apr '04
Should be back in stock very soon
How is Eliza's divorce connected to the rise of 20th century quantum physics? Why does the steamy promise of a key to unlocking a door at a cheap motel' lead us to a consideration of Moby Dick? What does one physician's fake appointment book have to do with Columbus, werewolves and Fanny Burney's mastectomy? Goldbarth sets his story of love's daily pleasures and griefs upon a foundation of ever-branching footnotes. Along the way on this strange, mindbending journey, he shows us how our lives are both confused and empowered by the multilayered universe around us.'
"Goldbarth, a whirling dervish of a poet, has fashioned a splendidly clever and tender first novel....A dazzling, sagacious, and poignant search for oneness within the many-faceted chaos of human life." - Booklist; "As intimate as a seven-drink conversation, as compulsive as a pocket encyclopedia, as unwilling to end as the light from stars no longer burning." - Village Voice"
ISBN: 9781555973780
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 309g
208 pages