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Four New Messages

Four New Messages

Cohen, Joshua

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ISBN10: 1555976182
ISBN13: 9781555976187
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Aug 7 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.04 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice*
* One of Flavorwire's 50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature

A spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present with Four New Messages, urgent and visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex, and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant.

In Emission, a hapless drug dealer in Princeton is humiliated when a cruel co-ed exposes him exposing himself on a blog gone viral. McDonald's tells of a frustrated pharmaceutical copywriter whose imaginative flights fail to bring solace because of a certain word he cannot put down on paper. In The College Borough a father visiting NYU with his daughter remembers a former writing teacher, a New Yorker exiled to the Midwest who refuses to read his students' stories, asking them instead to build a replica of the Flatiron Building. Sent begins mythically in the woods of Russia, but in a few virtuosic pages plunges into the present, where an aspiring journalist finds himself in a village that shelters all the women who've starred in all the internet porn he's ever enjoyed.

Highbrow and low-down, these four intensely felt stories explain what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real -- they harness the torrential power and verbal dexterity that have established Cohen as one of America's most brilliant younger writers.

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