Sign-In
Cart
A Contrived World
Paperback
Series: Korean Literature
Publisher Price: $18.00
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1564789551
ISBN13: 9781564789556
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Jun 24 2016
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781564789556
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Jun 24 2016
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Set in San Francisco, A Most Contrived World recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator's imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience.
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
$42.75
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback
From $9.99