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Sinking of the Odradek Stadium

Harry Mathews author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:18th Nov '99

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Composed of a series of letters between a husband and wife, ?"The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium"?is a brilliant comedy about love and longing, dashed hopes and frustrations, and trying to make connections. Newly wedded Zachary McCaltex (a librarian in Miami) and Twang Panattapam (originally from the Southeast-Asian country of Pan-Nam, but residing in Italy) try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in the sixteenth century, while navigating a relationship separated by an ocean as well as their different cultures. In the end, the postal service may be responsible for what gets lost (including Zachary's sanity) along the way.

"An imagination and an ingenuity that are often just astonishing... This is a journey worth taking." -- Harper's "A comic masterpiece, as funny as Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, as intricate as Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire... In The Sinking of Odradek Stadium, he has created a seamless fabric, as tense, light, and strong as stretched silk." -- Edmund White, New York Times Book Review "Harry Mathews has few, if any, equals in modern fiction." -- San Diego Tribune

ISBN: 9781564782076

Dimensions: 213mm x 137mm x 17mm

Weight: 317g

200 pages