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Absolute Away
Paperback
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781950539956
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
With Lance Olsen's signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined.
The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring's lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, grown Edie is the passenger clinging to the backseat of the Oldsmobile 88 convertible driven by Jackson Pollock, moments before it plunges off the road. In the third, the narrative embarks into an ever-unspooling universe of Edies that might have lived--Edie's gender, past, and consciousness flying forever farther apart.
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