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Rip It Up

Rip It Up

Machida, Kou
Joseph, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1965874142
ISBN13: 9781965874141
Publisher: Inpatient Press
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 4.62 Depth: 5.79
Language: English
The Akutagawa prize-winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan's most outlandish and inventive author.

Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award-winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint Mercurial Editions.

Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down-and-out wannabe debonair who ekes out a meager living at the fringes of the art world, wracked by jealousy at his friend's success and despondent over his own creative (and moral) bankruptcy. In turn hilarious and also horrifying, Machida's pyrotechnic prose plumbs the discursive depths of the creative spirit, a head-spinning survey of degeneration and self-sabotage.

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