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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Shadowplay

Shadowplay

Lock, Norman

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0963753630
ISBN13: 9780963753632
Publisher: Ellipsis Press
Published: Oct 15 2009
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess-by his art-a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. Shadowplay is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations. *** Stories compensate for lives unlived. They are what Norman Lock, or his avatar Guntur, calls shadows, negative reflections on a backlit screen, comprising, through artistry and brief illumination, ghosts. Lock's teller is imprisoned by darkness, captivated by warriors and princesses no longer, if ever, living. Death becomes a distance from which the voices of these unliving return. It is a journey as delicious as it is threatening. -R.M. Berry *** Wise up and get all you can of Lock. His writing was written by a writer exquisite in the singularity (read for this genius) of his utterance. -Gordon Lish *** [Lock's] prose is melodial, and alert to every signal from the unseen. -Gary Lutz

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