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Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Of glacial intensity, consisting almost entirely of interior monologues-interrupted by odd and jarring fragments of dialogue and action-The Chandelier moves in slow waves that crest in moments of revelation. As Virginia seeks freedom via creation, the drama of her isolated life is almost entirely internal: from childhood, she sculpts clay figurines with "the best clay one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold. She got a clear and tender material...
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the question: how does a writer remember? In particular, how does a he―a writer who no longer writes but can’t stop reading and rereading himself―remember. -from Amazon.
3) Utopia
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Romy, a gifted young artist in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, dies in suspicious circumstances, it is not long before her art-star husband Billy finds a replacement. Paz, fresh out of art school in New York, returns to California to take her place. But she is haunted by Romy, who is everywhere: in the photos and notebooks and art strewn around the house, and in the eyes of the baby she left behind. As Paz attempts to claim...
Author
Publisher
Pengiun Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of dreams - intense, vivid, visionary - form the spiraling core of this unique and haunting journey into perception. It explores and embodies Burroughs's provocative ideas on writing, painting, consciousness, and creativity.
Author
Language
English
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"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine's vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life....
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